Vista - Two questions: default save folder, Control Panel View Details

1. Some Windows applications have 'default save folders' assigned to them. For example, Paint has 'Pictures' as its default save folder. I do not live in Communist China, and therefore I should be able to select the default save folder for each application. For example, I should be able to decide whether Paint will by default save to 'Pictures' or 'C:\' or 'C:\Images\'. The choice should be mine to make. Now, there are some Communist sympathizers out there who say I should be content with browsing to my preferred folder every single time I save a file. I should be happy, they say, that I am free to click 'Save as' and browse from the default save folder ('Pictures') to my preferred folder ('C:\Images\'), tediously repeating this process again and again throughout my degraded and servile life. But I insist that these cowering bootlickers have betrayed the sacred cause of liberty and made a dishonorable peace with tyranny.

In sum: how can I change the default save folders for my applications in Vista?

2. Time and again, Control Panel opens with 'Medium Icons'. But I prefer 'Details'. How can I make it so that Control Panel always and forever opens with 'Details'?

Thank you for your assistance.

Hello, can anyone help with these questions?

Thanks again.

Hello, can anyone help with these questions?

Thanks yet again.

I haven't been able to find any way of having MSPaint, for example, default to a particular Save As location. So no help on your question 1. But see this Vistax64 tutorial for help on your question number 2:

Windows Explorer Folder View settings

Thank you. The Control Panel is beginning to behave itself. The 'default save folder' problem goes on.

Hello, can anyone help with my first question?

Thanks.

I'll try again. Anyone?