My general preference with XP was to set all folder to "list" view, tell the system to apply that view to all folders, and then change individual ones to other view types as I preferred. Win7 doesn't ...

Recent Samsung Galaxy devices are schemed to provide more advanced security features from screen unlock to storage. Among them is the so-called Samsung Folder. Samsung Folder is a dedicated folder ...

When’s the last time you used File Explorer’s “Display file icon on thumbnails” option? How about the Sharing wizard? If the answer is “never,” you’re not alone. Microsoft has taken some usage data ...

You can take a backup of all the changes you have made to the Folder View settings and restore using it if the settings get reverted back or on some other computer. In this post, we will see how you ...

Turn off restartable apps . By default, Windows may automatically reopen apps that were active before you shut down or ...

Microsoft is planning to prune some folder management options from File Explorer in Windows 11. The changes appear in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23481 and so are not yet official. But ...

In addition to the several new user-facing features introduced by Apple for iOS 7, hidden settings inside the new system have revealed that Apple has been testing other new enhancements. Hamza Sood ...

Windows 7 folder view settings has been misbehaving on me lately and I can't figure out what is causing it. I have a large MP3 collection which I've set a customized view for. See screenshot. All of a ...

With a few minutes of folder clicking, you can stop Vista's content sniffing and get the view you prefer in all your folders. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

In OS X the view options for a specific window instance are inherited from the first opened folder, which usually is the user's home folder. This means that if you have the home folder in a specific ...