Vista - How do you set detail view to traditional columns layout?

Assume the File Explorer. I want the details view to have
the traditional columns like File Name, Date Modified, Type, File
Size.

Initially, most if not all directories in the details view had the
columns
Date Taken, Tags, Rating - apparently for images. For those
directories
that I use frequently, I set the details view to include the columns I
want,
i.e. File Name, Date Modified, Type, File Size.

However, once in a while my settings are lost and my columns are gone
and replaced with the original columns Date Taken, Tags, Rating.
Does anybody know what causes my settings to be reset? How to freeze
them?
How to set all the directories to include my selected columns and
freeze them
forever?

What is so special about Date Taken, Tags, Rating? Why Vista
uses them as default and not the traditional columns
used for decades?

Hi,
Vista is giving you the columns it thinks you should have based on the type
of files it has detected (perhaps erroneously) in that folder.

To set columns for a folder, right-click in the folder >Customize this
folder> What kind of folder do you want? Use this folder as a template>
select "All Items." Vista should stop changing columns for that folder.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

<maruk2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Assume the File Explorer. I want the details view to have
> the traditional columns like File Name, Date Modified, Type, File
> Size.
>
> Initially, most if not all directories in the details view had the
> columns
> Date Taken, Tags, Rating - apparently for images. For those
> directories
> that I use frequently, I set the details view to include the columns I
> want,
> i.e. File Name, Date Modified, Type, File Size.
>
> However, once in a while my settings are lost and my columns are gone
> and replaced with the original columns Date Taken, Tags, Rating.
> Does anybody know what causes my settings to be reset? How to freeze
> them?
> How to set all the directories to include my selected columns and
> freeze them
> forever?
>
> What is so special about Date Taken, Tags, Rating? Why Vista
> uses them as default and not the traditional columns
> used for decades?
>

Hi maruk2,

This is a known issue with Vista. Vista will just randomly go back to it's default file/folder views. There's no known work around yet that I know of. Just keep a eye out on the Windows updates. Hopefully there will be a patch one day.

Sorry,
Shawn