Windows folder settings (ini)

Post by **rep** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:04 pm

So my XP seems to think it's cool to change folders according to what it thinks it has in them. If I have a picture folder, I like to use thumbnails, but if there is a stray file in there it may change the settings.

I like to arrange icons by the modified date, but often it'll take that out if there is an audio file in the folder and my only options are to arrange by title or artist for example. I can change this by making the view 'details' and selecting which details I want, 'modified' being the one in particular.

Is there a way to lock whatever ini file is used for each folder? (If I remember right, Win9x used 'desktop.ini', a hidden file in each folder to display the contents in a certain way.

I'd like to be able to have my ripped CDs folder to stay as,

view: list
arrange: by name
folder icon: cover scan

I already did this for a lot of my newer stuff and customized the icon to display a single image, but now it's all fucked up.

While we're on the subject, my downloaded videos folder crashes explorer pretty much all the time if it's viewed as a thumbnail. I searched the net for this problem and found out it's a conflict with some stupid codec and Windows. Does anyone know a fix for this?

TIA.

Post by **rep** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:40 pm

I see, I see... Interesting.

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:13 pm

rep, in looking under the tits of this problem, I haven't seen anything yet on an editable ini file, but it does seem we've got 3 choices here, your basic all-or-nothing global folder view settings, folder view template setup, or there's always the good old-fashioned remember each folder's settings and change the views folder by folder. I would steer you in the template direction but hey, that's just me.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:14 pm

desktop.ini is in xp folders... have you tried looking at that? Also I believe there is a setting to turn of the 'early previewing of avi's' in xp, this is sometimes the culprit in freezing videos. Either that or you need to uninstall the codec, get a better codec package (like k-lite mega codec pack). =p

Post by **a13n** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:01 am

It sound quite odd that XP is thinking.
I think it is just responding.