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Terry Pinnell - 27 Dec 2006 08:11 GMT

I'm not sure if this is an XP issue or what, but I'm 99% sure it's
only started happening recently. In several programs, when I use
File>Open, the display is always in Large Icon mode. Yet those same
folders open in my preferred List mode in Explorer/My Computer.

The programs doing this are my movie editing apps: Womble MPG Editor
Wizard, VideoRedo, TMPG Enc 3.0 XPress, TDA 1.6. Other programs like
IrfanView, TextPad, etc, still present the Open list in List mode by
default.

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Terry Pinnell - 28 Dec 2006 11:49 GMT

>I'm not sure if this is an XP issue or what, but I'm 99% sure it's
>only started happening recently. In several programs, when I use
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>IrfanView, TextPad, etc, still present the Open list in List mode by
>default.

No one with any thoughts on this please? I'd like to get back to all
my programs showing the LIST mode when I use File>Open. For movies
etc, the ICON mode slows things down, as well as making it necessary
to scroll more to find the file I want.

XP Home is opening Explorer folders OK, and remembering their mode. So
I guess the cause is something obscure ;-(

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Elmo - 28 Dec 2006 20:54 GMT

>> I'm not sure if this is an XP issue or what, but I'm 99% sure it's
>> only started happening recently. In several programs, when I use
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> XP Home is opening Explorer folders OK, and remembering their mode. So
> I guess the cause is something obscure ;-(

This might reset the ability to set the preferred layout; I'm not sure.
It just mentions the sort order, but might help reset display
preference too.

Restore Sort order in Open and Save dialogs
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_opensaveorder.htm

Also look at these Kelly tweaks:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Line 2. Increase Folder View Size Limit to 8000

Line 85. Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As

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Terry Pinnell - 29 Dec 2006 10:31 GMT

>>> I'm not sure if this is an XP issue or what, but I'm 99% sure it's
>>> only started happening recently. In several programs, when I use
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>Line 85. Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As

Thanks Joe, appreciate your taking the trouble. Unfortunately already
tried those 3!

Also just about to try the program OpenWide from
http://lingo.atspace.com/openwide.html

Will report back if it does what I want. But in any case I'm still
hoping to discover what the underlying cause of this odd behaviour is.

Anyone else with any ideas please?

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