Re: How to get rid of "duration", "dimension", "quality" columns in explorer

I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can set to all of a folder's
subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip file contains a readme
file & the script itself.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip

You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to be inherited by all
subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views) . You can set a
default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default for My Computer. The
inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for example, you can set a
non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return My Computer to its
standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting the default view you have
set.

For your particular complaint, you can set inheritance at the highest level, the Desktop. Then any folders that do not have a saved view (you have the option of deleting old views when running the script) as well as any new folders created will use the column choice you set for the Desktop when running the script.

If you set inheritance at the Desktop level, the task pane for folders will still be reflect autosense logic (Folder Tasks vs. Picture Tasks vs. Music Tasks). If you wish to override this, you can do so by editing the registry.

Assuming you allowed the script to clear existing views and only set inheritance for the desktop, you would have a single subkey under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]

named "1". It would have a subkey named "Shell", containing the view settings for the Desktop, and 'Shell' will have a subkey named "Inherit", which contains the view settings which are inherited :).

So under the key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\1\Shell\Inherit]

you would create a new REG_SZ value, name it "FolderType" and assign it a value of "Documents".

Then all folders, regardless of content, will display 'File and Folder Tasks'


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


"JayMore" <jerome.forestier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1155994315.428894.146000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Kevin wrote:

In Windows Explorer choose View>Choose Details. You can select what you
want there.

Yes... BUT ... I have to do this for each folder I browse. If I create
a new folder and put pictures in it, Windows/explorer will rescan the
entire content to display image dimension.

Is there a global setting to tell to windows that I don't want him to
scan my file content ??


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