Automating details view?

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A year ago for several months, I followed all the instructions on
fixing getting details view in Windows XP pemanently but nothing works
reliably. I've followed instructions on new computers that I've gone
to when I go to new job contracts and there is no permanent fix. If
setting it the first time doesn't work the first time, it usu. never
works at all permanently and I have to reset to details view every
single new reboot.

s'okay. I've learned to live with it somewhat as one of the stupid
little XP flaws can't work around (and, yes, followed ALL the
instuctions given in this ng and from other places.) I've gotten
around this XP flaw by using WE replacement.

The difficulty lies in that scripts I don't want to change use WE
first. To this end, I'm trying to find a way to automate setting
details view on boot up. This fresh install around I'm not even
getting the usu. minimal co-operation with XP and I seem to have to
reset periodically, not even just upon reboot.

I'm hoping for a vb script _or_something_ that will do this reset for
me as I've lived with the reboot problem for a long time but can't
stand that now I don't even have this. I'd just put the solution in
my startup folder so that at least I'll have to do this less often.
Too bad I rely on my folder scripts so much, but there you go ...

Is there anything that can help with this?

Again, I followed _every_ single line of instruction given in this ng
and in other places over a period of several months and this is just
one of those things that isn't reliably fixed. As I mentioned above,
if the setting works the first time, it will work always, but if after
a reboot XP reverts back to the default view, I have to reset after
each reboot always.

And watch out if you change the setting! It seems to be a one-time
only deal, as I found to my cost.

So no longer looking to fix the XP flaw, looking to automate setting
folder view to details view on each reboot instead.

Can this be done somehow? Thanks! :oD
 
Anyone? Is there a vb script or commandline thing that will change
Explorer's default icons view to details view? Thanks.
 
Give this a try. The 400 view is MS default, increase it.
Folders View (increase from 400 to 8000, line #2, left column)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Click to expand...

Hi! Thanks for your response. But I'm not kidding that I've tried
_everything_ recommended a year ago or so in this ng and others and in
forums. I googled and tried absolutely all steps recommended. I even
tried all the steps again yesterday. Still nothing works.

Initially when I first got my XP at home, I had this trouble. And
have always have this problem since then, no matter which computer I
get on. And I mean even on fresh installs.

I go in, untick saving individual folder view and set the folder view
to details. I delete the 2 lines in the registry re the bag things,
then set what I want and reboot. I've changed the value from 400 to
8000. NOTHING! And there were a couple of other tricks tried that
also don't produce results. Unlike Win98SE, XP is just resistant to
changing from the default view.

All the times I've tried this and it has worked a sum total of exactly
TWO TIMES on all the XP computers I've ever been given. And it's the
first thing I do when I get on a new computer in a new contract.

Like I said, it's worked twice, consistently. On all other computers,
it only works for each session and always has to be reset after a
reboot.

But of those two times it did work, boom, once after a year with one
stable setting, I made a very slight change in column width one day
and then set folder view to that and BAM, the stability was completely
gone as in all the other times. The instant I changed the setting, I
then had the usu. behaviour on even that previously stable system
where I'd have to set after each reboot <sigh>. I started using
PowerDeskPro there, too, accessible via the SendTo (one of the few
replacements that works via right-clicking a folder and going to
SendTo and it opens up that folder in the other program).

I'm really beyond trying to fix this via XP. After months and months
of searching last year and trying out a couple of dozen WE
replacements, I have worked with 3, finally staying with PowerDesk Pro
as the best and most productive and easest to maintain (for _me_).

It's just that the Win+E key combination and my many scripts use WE
and not my replacement. In the case with my AutoIt automation
scripts, because each fresh XP install assigns a different drive
letter to my "Programs" source folders and other partitions, it's not
effective to rewrite all my scripts each and every time I have to
reinstall XP to accommodate the drive letter changes to the path of my
WE replacement. So I'd like to resolve the WE problem so that I can
continue working as I have yet without the damn details view problem
in WE.

So, just looking for some way to automate changing folder view to
details in WE and setting it, _programatically_, so that I can then
translate that to AutoIt, as well. It _is_ cost-effective and
productivity-effective to write a script workaround to setting WE to
details view into the beginning of all my many folder navigation
scripts. Unlike using shortcuts that maximize, AutoIt gives me
supreme control over folder behaviour as well as having relative paths
(unlike shortcuts). All-in-all, scripting folder navigation is the
best; if only I can get the view I need that shows me all the
necessary information.

Thanks once again. :oD
 
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