I am terrified I am doing this wrong. Apologies if I am. :p I'm a noob.

Silly question. I'm trying to get windows to ACTUALLY save my folder viewing
preference things. I know how to change them, and I've clicked and unclicked
the little checkbox that says it will do this, but it does not seem to be
working. I just want to have a base folder containing other folders (say, My
Pictures in my case) organized by "name," then have all the stuff inside the
subfolders, the actual pictures, grouped by name or modified, but NOT by
type. @_@

Failing this, I'd like to permanently disable the "filmstrip" view. All my
folders default to this (when I make a new folder, or plug in my pen drive)
and it is the most irritating and useless view ever. >_> I can navigate well
in any other view, but Filmstrip drives me nuts.

Graaagh. I've looked all over and found nothing, and the website thing says
I've got to pay to get email/phone support, which is just dumb. >_> Sorry.

If nobody knows, though, that's cool too. :p It's not a life or death
problem here, just a very very annoying small thing that I've been constantly
fighting for bloody ever.