maximising all windows

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I want to every window I open, especially sub folders and files within them,
to open 'maximised as the default setting. I know you can right click an
icon in the quick launch list and set the window size in it's properties box
but what about e.g. a collection of digital photographs tucked away in a
hierarchical collection of folders, sub-folders, sub-sub-folders etc. The
extra click to maximise each one starts getting frustrating after a time
(like 30 secs).

I believe Microsoft never got round to providing a means of doing this
comprehensively in any version of window and so far I've not found a third
party app to do it.

Does anyone know of one, or of a foolproof way of doing it?

Regards,

RoS
 
Apply to All Folders
[[Click to apply the current folder view to all folders on your computer.
This does not apply to toolbar settings.]]

Open a folder first, make whatever changes you want, then...
Click Tools | Click Folder Options | Click the View tab

Or just open a folder first, then...
Click Tools | Click Folder Options | Click the View tab

If you open Folder Options from Start | Run or from the Control Panel Apply
to All Folders button will not be available.

Reset All Folders
[[Click to reset the folder settings that were in effect when Windows was
installed. This does not apply to toolbar settings.]]

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Tried that and it doesn't work. A folder (chosen at random) will still open
in the smaller, i.e. less than full screen size, window rather than one that
was set to the full size and chosen to "apply to all folders".

Are the dimensions of the smaller window hidden away in the Registry
somewhere - and capable of being altered?

To my mind, this sort of restriction really shows up just how great some of
the shortcomings in Windows really are. I can't be the only kid on the
block who wants to open my correspondence folder and view the contents i.e.
the files, in a full sized window so as to show the maximum number per page
and I want these to appear in "list" or "detail" format. What use any other
way of referring to your Word files? Surely that's an obvious and
fundamental need. There's no point in only being able to access less than
the maximum possible number in one operation. On the other hand if I'm
going to check my digital photographs (without opening a graphics app) I
want to go to the partition where my graphics are stored, again see a full
page showing a list in "detail" view of the folders containing the image
files but I need each file to open in thumbnail view; they are graphic
images after all and it's pointless being restricted to the name of the file
..

This is imitating a real life filing system and desk when you think about
it and I don't see why it wasn't obvious to Microsoft early on during the
development of Windows that the ability for the user to choose different
default settings for such basic options as window sizes and the way
different types of file should be displayed was a pretty fundamental need.
It seems a great shame that Microsoft has provided so many features of
little if any practical use to most users but has still not catered for
this.

Ominously I haven't found any third party solutions yet. But does the
Registry hold the answer?

Regards,
RoS
 
Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
| View tab | Remember each folder's view settings

Remember each folder's view settings:
[[Specifies that the individual folder settings are retained whenever you
close and then reopen the folder. When this box is not selected, all folder
settings return to the default when the folder is closed and then
reopened.]]

Open The Registry Editor and navigate to these two keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags

Right click on BagMRU, select Delete, click Yes to the prompt and do the
same for Bags. Reboot and set up your folders again, they should be
remembered now. Those two keys will be recreated. If they still aren't
remembered...

Why doesn't Windows keep my folder settings?
Run this edit, then reset your preferred folder options:

Windows remembers 400 folder settings. When that number is reached some
settings aren't retained any longer. You can change this to 8000 by adding
this edit to the registry.

Increase Folder View Options Limit: (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and
answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by right
clicking on the file and selecting Edit.
from...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

SP2 changed the number from 400 to 8000, but what the hey.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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