Uniform Folders
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I don’t know about you, but if my folders aren’t displayed correctly on my computer, it can be a pet peeve. Jake Ludington provides some great advice on how to keep all of your folders uniform.
Microsoft includes a number of settings for modifying the way your folders appear. Some of them appear helpful and can actually cause your folders to do all kinds of crazy things you never intended. There are a few steps to configuring your folders to get them to all look the same and stay that way.
The first thing to do is launch Windows Explorer by either using the Windows key + E keyboard shortcut or by choosing Start / My Computer.
From the View menu, choose the View you want to use for your folders. I prefer the Details view, but choose the view that works for you. From the menu choose Tools / Folder Options and click on the View tab once the Folder Options window opens…
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[tags]windows explorer,windows xp,jake ludington,keep your folders uniform,folder options[/tags]
One Comment
Elliott Winslow
July 31st, 2008
at 11:23am
I think every answer to this I’ve seen yet doesn’t get it. This works once (when it does work, which apparently isn’t always), but doesn’t “commute”. Say you make all folders “details” but now say you want to change the explorer view to “list”. Fine. Now navigate. You only changed the view in one folder, all the others are still “details”.
I’d like the application to remember the view, not the data. (This is the fault of every idiot programmer learning OOP.)