Foldar weirdnass...

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

I have noticed that I have been repeatedly resetting the views for various folders. I like the details view but for some reason Vista seems to be randomly changing the view to something else. What sayeth anyeth ofeth youeth?

[spidermonkey]

I seem to have noticed something similar. Also Vista seems to be certain that the details which I will always be most interested in for any type of file are "artist, title, rating, album" and the like... I suppose I could just start giving ratings to my photoshop files...

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

it may actually have something to do with when I alt-tab out of whatever game I am playing...

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

Ok...it actually has nothing to do with the games...just seems to magically happen if I change the view of a folder within my C drive it will change the view of the computer folder. If I change the view of the computer folder it changes the inner folder back to the view I don't want again. So it looks like I will perpetually have to set the folder views if I want to do that. At least Vista Ultimate comes with a FREE downgrade!

[R3C]

Set the view type that you like. Then, when you're viewing the folder, hit alt for the menus to show up. Try going into Tools, Folder Options, set the views the way you want them, apply it to all folders. That will make them all the same. They should stay that way after that. (you never know though, and there is always that downgrade...)

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

I was wondering where they were hiding the folder options menu...thanks...

Ah yes that did fix it although it didn't recursively apply the folder view I was setting from the root so I had to go one level into it and then apply.

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

ok it actually didn't fix it...

[enderzero]

no it definitely didnt fix it - it is the biggest worstest bug in Vista. It makes me spit up in my mouth.

McNevin and I have been talking about it for a while and he dug up this handy fix which I'm not really sure works but is worth a try.

btw I set mine to 10,000.

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

You would think a bug like that would be exceedingly simple to fix...especially for SP1...but then when you think about what MS had to do to even get Vista out the door by ripping out a huge part of the file system design maybe the resultant code base is an ugly screwed up mess of barely working code...just a thought...oh and BTW...I SEE YOU HAVE BEEN USING MY INTARWEB!?!? PWND!!!!

[R3C]

Everything there is a big ugly mess of code. Things seem to start off as an ugly mess, then they get refined, and then before they get released, they are downgraded, free of charge, into a big ugly mess again. Probably brought on by over-caffeinated, under-slept, coders trying to meet impossible deadlines, while having meetings to plan for more meetings, while trying to invent new language to use in the meetings, to look cool to your over-caffeinated peers, while trying to caffeinate yourself more, so you can yell louder than your over-caffeinated peers at your WAR meetings. Hey, ping me next week when you get some extra cycles, so we can crystalize these primary action items.

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

I've got extra cycles these days...usually dedicated to running the no operation opcode over and over again with the occasional jsr to the subroutine paybills at the end of the month...

[R3C]

I just ran that subroutine a few minutes ago. I hate that subroutine. I'd like to comment it out...