With a few minutes of folder clicking, you can stop Vista's content sniffing and get the view you prefer in all your folders. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

Macworld For the longest time, Mac folder personalization was primarily limited to adding a name, tag, and custom icon. While you could tweak the look further through unofficial means, the default ...

Q: Whenever I click on the folder to open a file in Word or Excel, I want the view to default to display the files as Details in alphabetical order. However, for some reason, when I click on the ...

Mark Kline wants to know how to make Windows open all folders in the Details view. Geeeze! You’d think people could just be happy with the defaults Microsoft gives them! Well, since you’re not (and to ...

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.

for most folders, i like the "details" view, and i have stuff set up the way i want. but i'd like every folder under the "my pictures" tree to display thumbnails instead of details. is there a way to ...

If you find that your Windows 11/10 forgets Folder View settings or does not remember it and keeps resetting it, you can try this registry modification. The usual way to reset a Folder Type View ...

This has been driving me nuts, and I'm sure its right in front of me! I know how to set the default folder view in XP, and apply it to all folders, but for some reason whether or not I have the folder ...

One of my favorite applications for the traditional Mac operating system was Action Files from Power On Software. The main reason I loved it was that I could rename files or move them to the trash ...

Software success is fleeting—for every program such as BBEdit that becomes a software staple, you can find countless applications that are all the rage for a year or two and then either stop working ...