customising my documents so it can be arranged by date modified

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sarahstar111 - 30 May 2007 15:43 GMT

My Documents was always arranged in groups by date modified, then one day it
randomly decided it was a music folder (music symbol at bottom right of
screen) and I can no longer do this. Please help!

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Claymore - 31 May 2007 04:14 GMT

On May 30, 10:43 am, sarahstar111
<sarahstar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My Documents was always arranged in groups by date modified, then one day it
> randomly decided it was a music folder (music symbol at bottom right of
> screen) and I can no longer do this. Please help!

Hello Sarah,

Right-click the folder => Properties => Customize tab
In the drop-down box near the top of the window, select from 'Use this
folder type as a template' - 'Documents (of any type)'.

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Wesley Vogel - 31 May 2007 18:37 GMT

Common Tasks Don’t Match Folder Type
by Keith Miller
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_common_tasks.htm

Keith Miller has a script that can fix the problem. Download
TaskPaneFix.zip attachment from this newsgroup post:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize/msg/d7dd4582
cc4b2e99

Clear at the bottom.

TaskPaneFix.zip
2K Download

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

> My Documents was always arranged in groups by date modified, then one day
> it randomly decided it was a music folder (music symbol at bottom right of
> screen) and I can no longer do this. Please help!

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sarahstar111 - 31 May 2007 19:00 GMT

Thanks, but this didn't really make sense what you were meant to do with it,
but I've worked out another way around it anyway.

> Common Tasks Don’t Match Folder Type
> by Keith Miller
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> > it randomly decided it was a music folder (music symbol at bottom right of
> > screen) and I can no longer do this. Please help!

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Wesley Vogel - 31 May 2007 20:42 GMT

From your original post it sounded like your My Documents folder was acting
like a music folder. I.e. Instead of having File and Folder Tasks you had
Music Tasks showing in the Tasks pane, the left hand pane in folders.

Those links were to address that problem.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

> Thanks, but this didn't really make sense what you were meant to do with
> it, but I've worked out another way around it anyway.
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
>>> day it randomly decided it was a music folder (music symbol at bottom
>>> right of screen) and I can no longer do this. Please help!

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sarahstar111 - 31 May 2007 20:53 GMT

Yes, that was the problem, however the program you instructed me to download
didn't actu
ally do anything. Thanks anyway though.

> From your original post it sounded like your My Documents folder was acting
> like a music folder. I.e. Instead of having File and Folder Tasks you had
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
> >>> day it randomly decided it was a music folder (music symbol at bottom
> >>> right of screen) and I can no longer do this. Please help!

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