> But once you've set the view for each path, they'll be remembered.
Right. But you have to agree with me that it is a bit annoying having to set
your "personal" folders view twice. Specially because most of them are
customized as Templates (nice name) such as Documents, Photos, Videos, etc.
So setting one template should customize them all, like you said. This is
something I can live with. The trouble is that when I insert a DVD, for
instance, the DVD files are shown as Tiles, the Windows default. I've created
a new folder, just today (before I discovered that different paths would
result in different views) and it was also showing as Tiles and, what's
worse, it was "sorted" by file types (that blue line separating the files),
something that I never use, besides on the Computer folder. I felt like
Windows applied a completely random view and sorting, since I didn't use any
templates on that folder and I didn't customize it (I had just created it).
This is the second annoying thing.
>If you start to think about a
> desktop.ini type file for each user on a network where 100+ users may access
> the folder, you'll see how that's a lot of filesystem space & clutter.
That, I agree with you. But still, the way Windows handles these
customizations bothers me, ever since Windows XP (and now I believe this same
problem will still haunt me). I know Windows stores a limited amount of
folders customizations. So the more I use my computer, the messy it gets.
Soon, say three months from now, my Pictures folder will be viewed as
Details, my Videos as small thumbnails, my Music as Tiles, not to mention the
other folders I have somehow configured. All because I committed the sin of
pulling the Name column a little bit on an old folder I deleted just to see
the filenames better and Windows stored that and erased my customizations. So
there I go customizing everything again.
> The view settings from that first folder are also saved as the
> view
> settings for any folder you browse through. So you're not saving much
> registry space.
This is bad news. So I'm better off with that setting turned on. Who knows
how long my customizations on my favourite, persistent folders will last
until Windows decides to wipe them out.
You see, my only real complaint here is that Windows won't simply apply
"Details" view for all Folders, except the ones I customize differently. I
don't want a simple column resizing, or a column sorting, or a column
positioning to ruin my customization on the other folders I have. If I can do
that and somebody tells me how, I will be really grateful.
Andre