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My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Thanks for your quick answer Galen.
It worked indeed, but the slightly annoying thing is that now all my
folders look the same, that is not only do they NOT have this
annoying Auto Arrange thing, but also all the other characteristics
of the folder I used to modify all of them. That is, they now all are
"thumbnail view" whereas soem of them were detailed lists, etc.
Isn't there a way at the Registry level to simply specify : no Auto
Arrange at all, point period blank, the rest being otherwise
unchanged?
Thanks a lot anyway, that has already lowered my level of irritation
(I must admit I am on a big project and little things irritate more
than they should... I guess I need more of this French burgundy wine.)
cheers
Yeah it will set it to default of the folder that you were in. What I tend
to do is to not use thumnail view but to set it to show common tasks, double
click, show details, show hidden files, and protected files, display full
path in address bar, and to remember each folder's view. That is my default
and so I apply it to all folders. Then, if I have an image folder and want
it to be thumbnails, I'll go ahead and change that in that folder and that
folder alone will retain those settings. Somewhere...
How to modify your folder view settings or to customize a folder:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812003
There, I knew it was in my clipboard manager... This was in there too:
How To Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307856
Galen
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