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original title: Windows 7 doesn't remember folders views. Pathetic Microsoft.
Once again I find it totally pathetic that Microsoft Windows 7, like Vista, Like Windows XP and all the other operating systems M$ has developed can't EVEN remember the layout for folders.
What is THE POINT of even having customization options in Explorer for the users to set, if your STUPID explorer code doesn't even BOTHER to remember them. Users go to the trouble of customizing their desktops and folder layouts only to discover that their
work is undone as soon as the PC reboots or Windows 7 decides to forget or overwrite the stuff in the registry.
It's also pathetic that M$ has removed most of the "individual" folder customization options from Windows XP now opting for a "one view fits all approach!". (I.E The removal of the folder option "View Tab / Remember this folders layout"). I can't decide if
one folder when opened should have the "Navigation Bar" on the left. Now if one folder has the navigation bar, hey look, ALL MY FOLDERS open with the navigation bar now! Yay! NOT.
Even with this, IT STILL forgets every customization that you've made to your folders!
Things that go through my head when I'm using Windows 7:
Mmmm. I'd like my folder to have this icon or bitmap picture please. There we go, very nice. Reboot. Mmmm. Why's it gone back to showing all the file type icons in that folder again! Oh god, even worse! NOW ALL MY FOLDERS HAVE REVERTED TO DETAILS VIEW!!!!!
B*llocks, I only spent many, many, many hours (over time) setting that lot up! Gee thanks for screwing me over M$. You obviously spent lots of money and many, many hours asking your BETA users what would p*ss them off the most when using Windows Explorer.
Geeky beta tester voice: "Erm yes, I think I'd be very p*ssed if all of a sudden it reverted to details on all my folders in explorer". Microsoft: "OK, we'll be sure to include that then... Anything else that would p*ss you off". Geek: "Yes, while your at
it, if the navigation bar appeared in EVERY folder and didn't even have a shortcut key so I had to reach for my mouse and go to a menu rather than quickly displaying and hiding it when needed, that would probably p*ss me off really badly". Microsoft: "Hey
that's a great idea!".
Folders view settings should be remembered INDIVIDUALLY for god sake, on a folder by folder basis.
I think the removal of this option and the fact that Microsoft have removed code rather than actually fixing the code in the first place is a sign of how pathetic Microsoft software is becoming.
I hope that Apple start developing their operating system for PC's rather than just Apple Mac's one day in the future.
It will finally be the nail in the coffin for Micro$ and personally I'll be glad to see the back of them.
I'm a PC and I'm pissed off that Microsoft Windows Explorer doesn't bother to remember how I laid out my folders.
If you want to know what I'm talking about M$ look at the Apple Mac operating system and copy what they're doing (you know, the usual).
At least they seem to know what I'm talking about.
If you think I'm the only one who's pissed at this by the way: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=windows+7+remember+folder+settings&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=0&oq=Windows+7+remember+folder&fp=a60718907b4ba39b
21 million 500 thousand users would disagree with you.
DESIRED EFFECT
To have a folder and its subfolders all use the same view template AND to have that view template reflect the layout of one of the folders.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
First of all, you need to realize Win7 treats these as two very different requests:
1. Make subfolders use the same view template as the parent folder.
2. Configure how a view template is laid out.
My confusion was that I thought that by changing the layout of the parent folder and clicking "Apply to subfolders" it would apply the LAYOUT of the parent folder, but all it's doing is saying "Make them all look to the same view template as the parent folder."
Understand that when you say "Optimize this folder for: *Music*" IT DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE THE LAYOUT of the folder! It is ONLY telling it that it is a Music folder (or General or Pictures or whatever) and ANY TIME FROM NOW ON when the *Music* template is changed (via Right Clicking on any *Music* folder > Organize menu > Folder and search options > View tab > Apply to folders ) ONLY THEN will the LAYOUT update.
So unfortunately Xaero_Payne's solution by itself will result in the "problem" that everyone here seems to be having. You need to do BOTH steps to get it to work. (I know it's easy to rant about M$, but rather than pi$$ into the wind at them we may as well get into their heads and figure out how to use what we've got.)
STEP BY STEP
You can do these two processes in any order but I like to do it as presented because I can then most easily see the changes. For the example below I'm going to make them Music folders and I'm going to apply the Details view template.
Process A: Make Subfolders use Same View Template
Right Click on the Parent folder that contains all the Subfolders > Properties > Customize tab > check Also apply...subfolders > select *Music* (for this example) > Apply then Okay
Process 1: Customize and Apply the Music view template layout
Find or create a folder of the view template you want to use.
Select the *Details* view (or List, Large Icons, etc.) and then customize the layout the way you want it. Add new desired columns and reorder them as you like.
Organize menu > Folder and search options > View tab > Apply to folders. THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS because otherwise it doesn't know you want ALL the *Music* folders to be like this one.
I am actually having a similar problem with Windows 7. I want my folders to remember their size and their individual layout. It should include not just a few general types, but icon layout (or list type), navigator (or none), etc.
Once again: I don't want general types, I want individual layouts.
Example: I want to have a folder with icons on my desktop. It does not need the navigation panel. However, if I chose to remove the panel, it is also removed in my vanilla explorer (Windows key + E).
Apparently, Win 7 does not have this functionality (it worked well in Win XP). Why? I am confused.
Only picked up this one now!
This is so typical of the M$ 'type' 'support' - or so they think anyway - types!
For starters they misuderstand the problem!
Then they make a pathetic sarcastic remark!
Then they abdicate, after being told off properly, when their help was not asked for in the first place! The 'so-called' help which missed the point completely!
M$ producst are worsening by the day - Windows 7's networking is shocking! pathetic!
The 'Homegroup' permissions doesn't work properly, setting up a simple 2 x WiFi, 1 x Desktop through a Linksys WiFi Router goes wrong pathetically, requiring various restarts and re-setting of the permissions and not working after struggling for more than an hour!
DESIRED EFFECT
To have a folder and its subfolders all use the same view template AND to have that view template reflect the layout of one of the folders.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
First of all, you need to realize Win7 treats these as two very different requests:
1. Make subfolders use the same view template as the parent folder.
2. Configure how a view template is laid out.
My confusion was that I thought that by changing the layout of the parent folder and clicking "Apply to subfolders" it would apply the LAYOUT of the parent folder, but all it's doing is saying "Make them all look to the same view template as the parent folder."
Understand that when you say "Optimize this folder for: *Music*" IT DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE THE LAYOUT of the folder! It is ONLY telling it that it is a Music folder (or General or Pictures or whatever) and ANY TIME FROM NOW ON when the *Music* template is changed (via Right Clicking on any *Music* folder > Organize menu > Folder and search options > View tab > Apply to folders ) ONLY THEN will the LAYOUT update.
So unfortunately Xaero_Payne's solution by itself will result in the "problem" that everyone here seems to be having. You need to do BOTH steps to get it to work. (I know it's easy to rant about M$, but rather than pi$$ into the wind at them we may as well get into their heads and figure out how to use what we've got.)
STEP BY STEP
You can do these two processes in any order but I like to do it as presented because I can then most easily see the changes. For the example below I'm going to make them Music folders and I'm going to apply the Details view template.
Process A: Make Subfolders use Same View Template
Right Click on the Parent folder that contains all the Subfolders > Properties > Customize tab > check Also apply...subfolders > select *Music* (for this example) > Apply then Okay
Process 1: Customize and Apply the Music view template layout
Find or create a folder of the view template you want to use.
Select the *Details* view (or List, Large Icons, etc.) and then customize the layout the way you want it. Add new desired columns and reorder them as you like.
Organize menu > Folder and search options > View tab > Apply to folders. THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS because otherwise it doesn't know you want ALL the *Music* folders to be like this one.
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