Ok I know a lot of you have trouble with all that tech stuff, that’s why I want to help you to tweak Vista.

This is my first post of the series: “Solved: How to …”

One of the problems many people face once they have installed Vista is that their folder view will change every time they close and reopen a folder. This is annoying right?

Well here is the solution… (pictures inside)

1. Open the registry:
Simply click on the start orb and type in “regedit” into the search field. A file called regedit.exe will show up at the top, double-click it!

2. Locate the following folders in the registry editor by clicking on the small black arrows to expand the folder structure:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]

3. Right click on the folder “Bags” and click on delete, do the same for BagMRU. This is how you get rid of disturbing folder view entries. Don’t worry we will now create a new one called “DefaultFolders”.

4. Right click on the folder “Shell” that is the parent folder of the folders you just deleted.

Click on “New” -> “Key”. Name it “DefaultFolders”.

5. Repeat 4. but for the folder we just created and name the new folder “Shell”. That way you will create a subfolder “Shell” inside the folder “DefaultFolders”.

6. Now we right-click on the folder “Shell” and create a new String: “New” -> “String Value”.

Give the string the name “FolderType”.

7. Double-click it and type “Documents” into the value field.

8. Almost done, now all folders will have the same folder view as the “Documents” folder. Time to set your default folder view. To do that open up the explorer (Windows-key + E is the shortcut).

Now locate C:\Users\Your_User_Name\Documents\, where C: is the partition on which you installed Windows obviously. Make sure to set your favorite folder view (mine is Details) there.

Click on “Organize” -> “Folder and Search Options”.

Now go to the tab “View” and finally click on “Apply to Folders”!

You are done!

9. Enjoy

I hope this post helped you. If you have any questions feel free to post them here (please use the comment form for that).