Baffin
In addition to the excellent information posted by Shawn and Dean-Dean.
Although the Search folders are not standard Vista folders, there are some
things that you can do to customize them.
For instance, you can customize the Columns to display the information you
want to see in the folder. These settings appear to stick between sessions
and reboots. You can also enable the Preview Pane ( Organize/Layout/Preview
Pane ) to make the folder act more like it has the Pictures and Video type
customization.
See the bottom of the article that Shawn posted on how to customize the
columns.
Windows Explorer - Folder Type Templates
Tip: If you find a frequent need to post screenshots, you can set up a free
account at one the image hosting websites where you can upload images. I use
http://photobucket.com/ and it works a treat. This way you can simply post
the URL for the image that everyone can view.
Sample:
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...anualLogOn.jpg
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
"Baffin" <Baffin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The MS document at
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ductivity.mspx
> talks about different 'types' of Window Explorer, eg., Music Explorer,
> Photo
> Explorer, Document Explorer. In essence, Windows Explorer shows different
> columns, etc depending (apparently) on the contents of ('type' of) a
> folder.
>
> How do I control what 'type' of explorer gets used on a particular folder?
>
> In specific, I have a tree of folders containing JPG and AVI file types.
> When any of those folders is opened, one of the columns is "Date Taken",
> ie.,
> it appears Photo Explorer is operating -- that's great, that's what I
> want.
> However, a saved-search that draws from that same tree (and thus has only
> JPG
> and AVI files) does not display the results using 'Photo Explorer' -- it
> gives me "Date modified" instead (perhaps that's the Document Explorer
> view).
> How can I get the saved-search to display its folder with the same columns
> as the source folders?
>
> More generally, how can I force a 'type' upon a folder? (I can imagine
> wanting to do this in particular with saved-searches, which might return a
> mix of file types.)
>
> (Is there a way to find the 'type' of a folder? I looked under
> Properties,
> etc but didn't find anything. What determines which 'type' of Explorer
> will
> be used? Another place where I'd expect 'type' to be displayed to me is
> in
> the dialog under Organize->Folder and Views, View, Folder Views, where it
> says "... to all folders of this type" -- what type? It'd be helpful if
> it
> said "... of the ______ type".)
>
> I'm using Home Premium in Classic view.
>
> (I'd provide screenshots but unfortunately this forum apparently doesn't
> support images.)