Vista - Folder Template

I have the following problem everytime I change any of my folders (ex.
PICTURES, MUSIC, VIDEOS, ETC...) some other folder including those inside
"Drive C" will change their templates to the same one as the one I changed.
For example, right now the folder PICTURES has an specific view, which is
extra large --and as we know if we right click a folder and customize it, it
will let us change the template; thus changing the turquoise-taskbar on every
windows (the one that has unique icons depending on their templates)-- well
my Drive C windows have all the properties of a Pictures and Videos Template
including the blueish-taskbar.

I already went to the Folder Option and in the View tab, I reseted all my
folders, some of the folders, with the problem, get restored but if a change
some other folder, those who have been restored will change again. Also there
are some folders that even if I reset their view in Folder Option, they don't
change they stay with the incorrect template.

What should I do, please!?

*I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate

Hi Yondaime,

You will need to reset you folder view settings first so Vista will remember the changes you make. See METHOD TWO in this tutorial for how.

Windows Explorer Folder View settings


To make changes to the folder template, see these two tutorials:

Windows Explorer - Folder Type Templates

and

Column - Customize

Shawn

***Brink you are a genius. This particular problem is so annoying (I do
not know if it is because I'm a little bit excesive compulsive about
organization ) but you surely knew where to look up. The registry is so
complicated for me... Anyways, thank you a lot, Brink.

Sincerely,

Yondaime ***
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"brink" wrote:

Your welcome Yondaime,

Glad it helped you. I like my computer nice and organized too.

Shawn

I'm just going to reapply your fixes... and then I noticed a desktop.ini
file created by Vista in a music folder that contains "FolderType=
MusicAlbum"... not that it seems to have any effect, but what gives?

--
Julian I-Do-Stuff

Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com
"brink" <brink.31q1q5@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Hi Julian,

I never had much luck with editing the desktop.ini files on this. It just was not stable. Going through the registry was the only thing that was stable and worked for me.

Shawn

Ah! Default template is back to All Items...

(Though I do wish to point out that I had *checked* and the registry keys
were correct ( i.e. FolderType = NotSpecified) before I decided to re-apply
the registry changes, but Vista wasn't listening)

I wasn't criticising, Shawn, I was just asking if you knew what this was
Vista created the desktop.ini file and it created the FolderType =
MusicAlbum... . as I said, what was in there didn't seem to do very much....

But, I'm happy again - with e.g. a Windows folder that doesn't think it's a
Photo Album anymore... that's the sweetest little reg file in the whole wide
world <g>

However, the more I look at it the more templates I want! Big Folder icons
for photo folders, but within them I want Details. Shame that there is no
way of extending the template mechanism... are you listening Mr Microsoft?

--
Julian I-Do-Stuff

Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com
"brink" <brink.31t450@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Julian,

Not to worry. I knew you were not. Even if you were, that's ok to. Thos desktop.ini files are a bit to finicky for my taste to. LOL

Glad they are back to normal now.

Shawn