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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008So all of a sudden explorer is showing my C: drive as a music folder
Hi, When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the subfolders. However, instead of size and date modified I get album, artist and rating info. For any individual sub folder I can right click and change the customize properties to detail view, but for the C: drive no such option is aviable. How can I change the view back to details? How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? thanks Did you try right clicking the Column(s), and then choosing "More", if necessary?  SignatureMaxwell Bluemeanie > Hi, > When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? > thanks > Hi, > When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? > thanks Right-click blank area of right pane where file listing appears, select Customize this folder, then select All Items. -Frank Do the second method here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html Unfortunately you'll also lose all your other customised folders. > Hi, > When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? > thanks VistaTaskPaneFix: Occasionally, folder's which do not display the 'Customize' tab in their Properties dialog will acquire the Music or Pictures template. This script allows you to reset the folders to use the 'All Items' template. Keith's Windows Stuff: http://home.mchsi.com/~k.miller79/ SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com Hi, When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the subfolders. However, instead of size and date modified I get album, artist and rating info. For any individual sub folder I can right click and change the customize properties to detail view, but for the C: drive no such option is aviable. How can I change the view back to details? How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? thanks See also: Fixing Folder Type problems in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fixing-folder-type-problems-in-windows-vista/ SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com VistaTaskPaneFix: Occasionally, folder's which do not display the 'Customize' tab in their Properties dialog will acquire the Music or Pictures template. This script allows you to reset the folders to use the 'All Items' template. Keith's Windows Stuff: http://home.mchsi.com/~k.miller79/ SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com "SwampYankee" <1@2.com> wrote in message news:MPG.2299dbdb8bfe9af89896a6@localhost... Hi, When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the subfolders. However, instead of size and date modified I get album, artist and rating info. For any individual sub folder I can right click and change the customize properties to detail view, but for the C: drive no such option is aviable. How can I change the view back to details? How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? thanks >See also: > >Fixing Folder Type problems in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog: >http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fixing-folder-type-problems-in-windows-vista/ Refreshing to see it documented that Windows is broken. This is but one of many, many places it is true. How embarrassing for the idiots of Redmond to let a bug that goes back as least as far as XP REMAIN in Vista unresolved. Of course more experienced users of Windows over the years KNOW this is stated Microsoft POLICY. They are often are well aware of "bugs" but choose not to fix them, thus often annoying and frustrating their customers, which obviously they don't give a damn about either. Yes. This remains unresolved for years. I wish they provided with a GUI option to repair the Bags values, as folder contents sniffing goes wrong very often. IIRC, if there is only one file (of type "music") in a folder, windows sets a Music template for the folder/drive. Later on if the user adds mixed content to the folder, Windows does not update the template for the folder. SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:35:42 +0530, "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@unknownhost> wrote: >See also: > >Fixing Folder Type problems in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog: >http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fixing-folder-type-problems-in-windows-vista/ Refreshing to see it documented that Windows is broken. This is but one of many, many places it is true. How embarrassing for the idiots of Redmond to let a bug that goes back as least as far as XP REMAIN in Vista unresolved. Of course more experienced users of Windows over the years KNOW this is stated Microsoft POLICY. They are often are well aware of "bugs" but choose not to fix them, thus often annoying and frustrating their customers, which obviously they don't give a damn about either. > Refreshing to see it documented that Windows is broken. This is but > one of many, many places it is true. How embarrassing for the idiots [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but choose not to fix them, thus often annoying and frustrating their > customers, which obviously they don't give a damn about either. The absurd part of this particular problem is that the folder template has no affect on any functionality. So there is no good reason to not allow manipulation through the UI -- except to make repairing the OP's problem more difficult! SignatureGood Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] > See also: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Keith's Windows Stuff: > http://home.mchsi.com/~k.miller79/ Thanks, that did it. Silly thing but it annoying that is is so hard to fix and annoying that it happens at all. anyway all is now well., thanks You're welcome! SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com In article <u5ef73WuIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, ramesh@unknownhost says... > See also: > > Fixing Folder Type problems in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog: > http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fixing-folder-type-problems-in-windows-vista/ Thanks, that did it. Silly thing but it annoying that is is so hard to fix and annoying that it happens at all. anyway all is now well., thanks Thanks for the plug, Ramesh! SignatureGood Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] VistaTaskPaneFix: Occasionally, folder's which do not display the 'Customize' tab in their Properties dialog will acquire the Music or Pictures template. This script allows you to reset the folders to use the 'All Items' template. Keith's Windows Stuff: http://home.mchsi.com/~k.miller79/ SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com Hi, When I click on the C: drive in my explorer view I get all the subfolders. However, instead of size and date modified I get album, artist and rating info. For any individual sub folder I can right click and change the customize properties to detail view, but for the C: drive no such option is aviable. How can I change the view back to details? How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? thanks You're welcome Keith :-) Keep up the excellent work that you're doing! SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com Thanks for the plug, Ramesh! SignatureGood Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] VistaTaskPaneFix: Occasionally, folder's which do not display the 'Customize' tab in their Properties dialog will acquire the Music or Pictures template. This script allows you to reset the folders to use the 'All Items' template. Keith's Windows Stuff: http://home.mchsi.com/~k.miller79/ SignatureRegards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com > no such option is aviable. How can I change the view back to details? > How come after a year or so Vist decided to change this view? Because Vista sucks. You are lucky though - for some reason Vista keeps changing my music folders to image folders. |
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