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In the world of information consumption in applications, it’s crucial to have a clear and easy way to navigate and inspect that information. The master-detail design pattern has become one of the most popular approaches in applications today. In this post, we’ll discuss what this is, determine...

Hi all. I know how I can force all folders to a specific view, but I wonder if there is a way to force a specific network folder to always display in a certain view for all Win users accessing the said folder? The folder in question is on a file server, accessible via mapped drive, contains a...

hi, All; I know that opening a folder displays the content in the format of the last window I opened. Most of the time, this is fine. But there are certain windows that I would like to maintain a specific view. For example: Showing List, or displaying all Medium Icons, and set to a specific...

in general I like to always organize icons in folder windows thus: view -> arrange by type.. but when I do this in Windows 7 it does two very odd things: 1) the icons get turned into generic icons that all look the same (they're kidding, right?) 2) the extension of the files disappear (I have...

All my files that uses a small folder icon seems to have just vanished. Is there any way to restore it? Here's a screencap below. Link Removed Notice that there's no folder icon next to the "File Folder" types like Intel or Program Files. It's just blank. Even the icon next to "New Folder" is...

I've only noticed this one recently but I've set my Desktop folder attributes (and all others apart from the obvious) to "General" with which I have the large icon view. I always apply the settings to sub-folders as well. However, when I create a new folder on the Desktop and drop something in...

I want all of my folders to open up in list view. I found the folder properties but the darn "apply to all folders" is greyed out. please help thank Nick

I have a few problems in Windows 7 1. For example I got into MY DOCUMENTS, and I want to view the files and folders in LIST VIEW, but when I got into a folder lets say called "GENERAL" inside my Documents, I want to view it as "Large Icons" When I change the view of the GENERAL folder to LARGE...

Hello. I would like to change the appearance of a directory, to view the files as a list. How do i change it for good ? It seems there is not such an option :frown::confused:

Is there any way to disable the Full Row Select "feature" in Windows Explorer in the List/Detail views? All the methods for Vista that I have tried have not worked, and I cannot find anything about Windows 7 :( I am using Windows 7 Retail (not the beta).

I dont know whether or not im typing in the right section, but here goes: How do you change folder views permanently? It might be a stupid question but I feel that everytime I change a folder's view to LIST, Windows overrides it to a somewhat default view based on the content of the folder. If...

hi, I just noticed something odd: When I save a specific folder view for a folder (for example to show thumbnails for the files inside) windows saves that view. That isn't odd (of course), the odd thing is that when I visit that folder another way than last time, windows saves a seperate view...