Gizmo's Freeware site recently updated its list of the best free file managers for Windows.īut my current favorite Explorer alternative is David Erceg's Explorer++ donationware, which has many useful file-management features, including the ability to select the default view for all folders: click Tools > Options > Default Settings, make your selection, and click OK. The free Classic Shell file manager was one of the three Windows 7-enhancing utilities I described in April 2010. You might also wonder whether there might be a better file manager available for Windows. You might wonder why Microsoft would make it so difficult for Windows users to see the contents of all folders in Explorer in the view of their choice, whether details, lists, small icons, large icons, or some other view. The How-to Geek provides step-by-step instructions for customizing folder views in XP, Vista, and Windows 7. You can reset the view shown in the five folder templates in Windows Explorer via the Folder Properties dialog. The comments to that post suggest two alternative methods for resetting Explorer's default folder view. The steps are about the same in Windows 7. In August 2008 I described how to change the default Explorer view in Vista. So where does that leave us poor souls who simply want to see all our files and folders in the same view-details, lists, thumbnails, or icons-in every Explorer folder? Even then, a system change may reset your folder views to the Windows default, which uses different views based on the folder's contents. In Vista and Windows 7, you have to follow these steps for five different folder templates to have all Explorer folders show the details view: General Items, Documents, Pictures, Music, and Videos. The options under the View tab in the familiar Windows Explorer Folder Options dialog box.
Note: To reset all the folders to the default view settings, repeat these steps, but click Reset All Folders in step 3. On the View tab, click Apply to All Folders.On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.Locate and open the folder that has the view setting that you want to use for all folders.To set the default view for all folders and files to details, follow the four steps described on the Microsoft Support site: All I want is for the default for all folders to be medium. Just bought a Windoze 7 machine and its idiotic permissions, among other things, are even more irritating than previous incarnations. However, I have to use it vis-a-vis my business. "Probably a bad way to start, but I think Windows. Terry from Moncton, New Brunswick, agrees: At least not since the invention of the pop-top can (and with the possible exception of the Ford Escort). I will go out on a limb and say that in the history of humankind no product has caused more irritation to more people than Windows.
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