Open dialog: view type?

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Terry Pinnell

I'm not sure if this is an XP issue or what, but I'm 99% sure it's
only started happening recently. In several programs, when I use
File>Open, the display is always in Large Icon mode. Yet those same
folders open in my preferred List mode in Explorer/My Computer.

The programs doing this are my movie editing apps: Womble MPG Editor
Wizard, VideoRedo, TMPG Enc 3.0 XPress, TDA 1.6. Other programs like
IrfanView, TextPad, etc, still present the Open list in List mode by
default.
 
Terry Pinnell said:
I'm not sure if this is an XP issue or what, but I'm 99% sure it's
only started happening recently. In several programs, when I use
File>Open, the display is always in Large Icon mode. Yet those same
folders open in my preferred List mode in Explorer/My Computer.

The programs doing this are my movie editing apps: Womble MPG Editor
Wizard, VideoRedo, TMPG Enc 3.0 XPress, TDA 1.6. Other programs like
IrfanView, TextPad, etc, still present the Open list in List mode by
default.
Click to expand...

No one with any thoughts on this please? I'd like to get back to all
my programs showing the LIST mode when I use File>Open. For movies
etc, the ICON mode slows things down, as well as making it necessary
to scroll more to find the file I want.

XP Home is opening Explorer folders OK, and remembering their mode. So
I guess the cause is something obscure ;-(
 
Terry said:
No one with any thoughts on this please? I'd like to get back to all
my programs showing the LIST mode when I use File>Open. For movies
etc, the ICON mode slows things down, as well as making it necessary
to scroll more to find the file I want.

XP Home is opening Explorer folders OK, and remembering their mode. So
I guess the cause is something obscure ;-(
Click to expand...

This might reset the ability to set the preferred layout; I'm not sure.
It just mentions the sort order, but might help reset display
preference too.

Restore Sort order in Open and Save dialogs
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_opensaveorder.htm


Also look at these Kelly tweaks:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Line 2. Increase Folder View Size Limit to 8000

Line 85. Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As
 
Elmo said:
This might reset the ability to set the preferred layout; I'm not sure.
It just mentions the sort order, but might help reset display
preference too.

Restore Sort order in Open and Save dialogs
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_opensaveorder.htm


Also look at these Kelly tweaks:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Line 2. Increase Folder View Size Limit to 8000

Line 85. Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As
Click to expand...

Thanks Joe, appreciate your taking the trouble. Unfortunately already
tried those 3!

Also just about to try the program OpenWide from
http://lingo.atspace.com/openwide.html

Will report back if it does what I want. But in any case I'm still
hoping to discover what the underlying cause of this odd behaviour is.

Anyone else with any ideas please?
 
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