Default columns when displaying "Details" in Windows Explorer?

[stockhausen]

Can anyone tell me how to set an overall default for the columns shown when displaying "Details" in Windows Explorer with Windows 7 Pro SP1?

It seems to me that the default columns displayed if a directory contains:

• assorted files are - Name, Date, Type, Size
• .MP3s are - Name, Contributing artists, Album, Seq. No., Title, Size, Bit rate & Length (H:M:S)
• .JPGs are - Name, Date, Tags, Size & Rating
• .MPGs are - Name, Date, Type, Size & Length (H:M:S)

I would like to have a default of Name, Date Created, Date Modified, Type and Size.


On another front, back in the day (with CP/M) I seem to recall that it was possible to have multiple directory entries point to the same file on disk. You can achieve the same sort of result in UNIX with "symbolic links".

Is there any way of doing the same thing in Windows 7?

 

[Tomsk]

I've started using Q-Dir instead of Windows Explorer.

Portableapps.com

 

[marc2003]

For symbolic links, use mklink

You can change explorer to default to documents view for all types of folders.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

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

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\Allfolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="Documents"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy"=dword:00000001

Save that as a .reg file then double click to import. Then reboot.

 

[stockhausen]

Many thanks for those replies marc2003 and Tomsk.

I will certainly make the registry change, that should make life "more predictable". I will also have a look at Q-Dir which seems like an improvement although I am so used to Explorer that any change will take time - I used to love XTree . . . but then I grew up with the CLI & UNIX

Unfortunately whilst interesting, I don't think that mklink is what I am looking for. I will persist with my somewhat complex spreadsheet solution to a fairly peculiar query. I am trying to categorise .MP3s by artist, genre, etc. so that for example I can find out on what numbers Rebop Kwaku Baah, John Bundrick or Don Van Vliet appear (those are just very random examples).