How to customize folder templates in windows explorer

1 Nov 2008 10:11 PM

Christian Schratter

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

The topic says it all:
I'm looking for a way to customize the folder templates in the windows
explorer. In particular I'd like to change the standard view for document
folders from "tiles" to "details".

I definitely do NOT want to apply the "details" view to all folders, but
only those folders which are assigned the documents template.

Sincerely
Christian

1 Nov 2008 11:56 PM

Ray Parrish

Hello,

You can customize your folder views on a one by one basis. All you need
to do is set the folder to detail view, and Windows will remember to
open it in detail view the next time you open it.

Windows will only remember the settings for up to 400 folders at a time.

Later, Ray Parrish

Christian Schratter wrote:

> Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
>
> The topic says it all:
> I'm looking for a way to customize the folder templates in the windows
> explorer. In particular I'd like to change the standard view for document
> folders from "tiles" to "details".
>
> I definitely do NOT want to apply the "details" view to all folders, but
> only those folders which are assigned the documents template.
>
> Sincerely
> Christian

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2 Nov 2008 8:29 AM

ju.c

Explorer doesn't work that way.

Your best solution is to create folders to store certain file types
and use "Folder View Master" to set the views on those folders,
which will apply to all subfolders.

For example:

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\My Documents\Docs\
C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\My Documents\PDF\

Folder View Master by MS-MVP Keith Miller (no homepage anymore)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip or
http://members.home.nl/alsdewiedeweerga/Scripts/FVM3/FVM3.rar

Related:

FileOpenPatcher from ElmuSoft enlarges the Windows Open File dialog
and sets Details view as default.

FileOpenPatcher is the successor of the famous MultiEnhancer.
FileOpenPatcher (Scroll down page)
Info: http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/ElmueSoft-en.htm
Download Link 1: ftp://ftp.netcult.ch/mirror/elmue/FileOpenPatcher.zip
Download Link 2: http://electronix.ch/ptbsync/FileOpenPatcher.zip

ju.c

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"Christian Schratter" <Christian Schrat***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:54FDB8A7-9478-41C0-9571-307384D13C53@microsoft.com...
> Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
>
> The topic says it all:
> I'm looking for a way to customize the folder templates in the windows
> explorer. In particular I'd like to change the standard view for document
> folders from "tiles" to "details".
>
> I definitely do NOT want to apply the "details" view to all folders, but
> only those folders which are assigned the documents template.
>
> Sincerely
> Christian

2 Nov 2008 11:10 AM

Christian Schratter

Hello!

At first I'd like to thank you for your quick response!

"ju.c" wrote:
>
> Your best solution is to create folders to store certain file types
> and use "Folder View Master" to set the views on those folders,
> which will apply to all subfolders.

This is actually a very decent script, and as far as I have seen on a quick
test run it pretty much gives one every flexibility to customize folders and
subfolders to his needs. Thank you.

Still sad that Microsoft on one hand added the (great) feature to assign
template-views to a folder (and subfolders) but on the other hand gave no
ability to customize these templates - but I think that was fixed with
Windows Vista.

Kind regards
Chris