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Troubleshooting Windows Vista
Nikhil Rastogi, May 04, 2008 1121 hrs ISTHere's what the expert has to say about your Vista-related issues
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Blanket solution
If you want all your folders to look the same, no matter which you open, then here is a good blanket solution that does the same for you. Keep in mind though, that every drive partition (C:\, D:\, E:\, etc) that you have, the same steps below will need to be replicated for each drive/partition.
Repeat the steps above to set your folder view the way you would like it.
1. In Vista the normal File, Edit, View menu options are hidden. Click on the Alt key on the keyboard to pop out the menu bar above.
2. Now click on Tools | Folder Options.
3. Go to the View tab, click on Apply to Folders.
4. A new dialog box opens up confirming that you want to set all the folder settings of this drive to one view setting, click Yes and the OK.
This should ideally fix the problem and it did for my aunt. Now she can stop swearing at the PC.
If Windows still does not yield, I recommend using the following method.
Tip - Keep in mind that view modes in a folder is not equivalent to re-arranging data in a folder but just the way you view it. You are merely changing view preferences, which would be reset as soon as you take your data to another computer. Computers place priorities to special characters such as underscores (_), hypens (-) first, numbers second and then alphabets last. So if you want a file/folder to always be on top (the first one viewed), it must have any of these three conditions as true, e.g. a folder with a name as 0 New folder would always be the first one due to the presence of a number 0 in it's very name.
Software Solution
There's a wonderful free app that can really help here; it is known as ExplorerView. http://sdsoftware.org/default.asp?id=11214 Download it and follow the prompts for installing application.
On opening the program, click on Disallow Explorer to Auto-Detect Folder Contents. Clicking OK would ask you to restart the computer which you should for Windows to remember the setting.
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