September 1, 2009
So today I’ve tried win 7, man does this explorer suck. Must have been designed by either some woman or an uber-gay dude. Especially that “hey I know the best view mode for you” thing. I prefer details view but that gay explorer doesn’t seem to respect that. Googled for some solution and found Reset Windows Explorer Folder View Settings. Didn’t fully fit my needs though. So here is what I came up with:
- Export [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{5c4f28b5-f869-4e84-8e60-f11db97c5cc7}] to a file.
- Open file and replace HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE with HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Change ‘ColumnList’ to what I/You want.
- Added “HideFileNames”=dword:00000000 to [...\TopViews\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}]
-I like to see all stuff:) - Save and import file.
- Deleted all subkeys in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags] except for “AllFolders”.
- Right click on Bags -> Permissions -> Advanced, Add “Deny Create Subkey” to [username].
- Open Task Manager, kill all explorer instances, File->New Task->explorer.
