[gui-talk] Maintaining View settings in Win Xp Windows Explorer

[Chris Hallsworth]

You're very lucky to get XP Home working on your laptop. Like you 
correctly said drivers are hard to find now MS is pushing Windows 7. I 
will personally do the opposite; stick with 7 and not touch XP with a 
10-inch barge pole <smiles>. Anyway, back on topic; to apply your view 
settings to all folders:
1. On the tools menu, choose folder options.
2. Ctrl+tab to the views page, and choose apply all folders.
3. Choose the yes button when prompted.
4. Tab to the ok button and activate it.
Hope this helps.

Chris Hallsworth
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On 02/01/2010 00:57, Joel Deutsch wrote:
> Hi listers,
>
> I'm lucky to have managed to get my Acer laptop running under familiar Win
> XP Home rather than the Windows 7 it came with, thanks to my I T
> professional pal who set it up for me, which included having to seek out all
> sorts of drivers that were freely available and easy to find until Microsoft
> began shipping Windows 7, at which point they forced a lot of computer
> companies to stop offering drivers for Win XP. Or so says my friend..
>
> Fine. So that's one thing I didn't have to learn afresh. As everyone knows,
> the keyboard alone is a tough enough challenge for this dude.
>
> But I have to relearn something I used to know how to set on my XP desktop,
> but have forgotten how to do long ago. Making View settings stick in Windows
> Explorer. I discovered that some files in some folders were invisible to me
> and, checking their properties, I learned that it wasn't because somehow
> they'd been checked to be invisible or something. it turned out that the
> option "Icons was checked in the View menu, and this had made some files
> disappear. I don't know why that is.
>
> anyway, I arrowed down to Details and pressed Enter to check it, instead,
> and the files reappeared, and navigation was normal. But just leaving
> Windows Explorer to do something in another application and coming back to
> look for another file, I found that my change had undone itself and half the
> files in certain folders had again disappeared, or I didn't know how to look
> for them. Like maybe you're supposed to use the left and right arrows
> instead of going up and down, as if the files were icons on your Desktop? I
> didn't think of that. I just arrowed up and down, because that's what was
> habit for me.
>
> So I went into the View menu and, sure enough, it had reset itself to show
> Icons checked again. I arrowed to Details, hit Enter, and things went back
> to normal, by my lights.
>
> But how do you get changes to the View menu to stick? I just plain forgot.
>
> thanks in advance to anyone who knows what I'm talking about and can
> reeducate me on this.
>
> Joel
>
>
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