Explorer keeps reverting to 'Tiles' view

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I'm sure I can't be the first person to find Windows Explorer's tendency to
revert to the 'Tiles' view incredibly irritating.

It seems that no matter how many times I explicitly define that I want the
window to display information as a 'Details' view, Explorer will regularly
and for no apparent reason, revert to the default, but far less useful,
'Tiles' view.

I have no idea why Microsoft chose to ape this retarded Mac-style view as a
default, but I guess it was the down to the same blithering idiot who
thought it was a good idea to introduce the patronising and widely despised
'My Computer' etc. , but I do know that it's always the first thing I change
on a new XP installation and I'm sick and tired of having to keep setting it
time and time again.

This absurd behaviour seems to affect every flavour of XP from Home to
Professional and MCE, too and on pretty much every PC I've ever built as
well as many I haven't, so it can't be hardware-related.

I really can't see how this can be anything but a bug which begs the
question 'why hasn't it been fixed?' Two major service packs and more
patches than an weak-willed ex-smoker's arm later and it's still doing it!
Can there really be a rational explanation?

Can anybody shed some light on this subject and explain why this happens?
More importantly, can anybody offer any advice as to how I can stop it?

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Plegron Snaith


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