And herein lies the
source of the problem: Vista is no good at picking the default template. You
might open a folder full of HTML web page documents, and Explorer will
choose the template for music files. Or, a folder with nothing but photos
will show up in the Details view, rather than thumbnails (Large Icons).
Unfortunately, there??™s nothing you can do to change how Vista chooses its
templates, nor can you remove or create your own templates. But you can
customize the view settings for each template so that when Windows
Explorer does get it right, you??™ll get the view you need. To choose a template
for a folder and then customize it, see ???Photos, Pictures, Images??? in
Chapter 4.
But you may soon realize that Windows gets it wrong too often, and customizing
the templates just isn??™t enough. In this case, the solution is to
duplicate your favorite view settings across every template, so no matter
which template Windows picks, you??™ll get the view you need:
1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to any folder with files in it. (This
won??™t work with drives, so make sure the folder isn??™t a root folder.)
2. Right-click the folder in the tree, select Properties, and choose the Customize
tab. Or right-click an empty area of the folder background and
select Customize This Folder. (See the ???Missing the Customize Tab????
sidebar, next, if these options aren??™t present.)
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3. From the Use this folder type as a template listbox, select the first entry,
All Items, and then click OK.
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