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Set "View Details" as default

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by gene horton

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One of my users asked how to make her shortcuts to folders automatically show the file details. She's using Windows NT 4.0 (don't know SP). I'm primarily DOS/Win9x. Anyone know what to do here?

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by dklippert

Unfortunately, as far as I know, there isn?t a switch that will cause details to be displayed. Here are some articles that may help, but to display details consistently, I?m afraid you have to set up explorer in advance with View>Folder Options and then choose to apply them to all folders.

(Type the Q number into the ?For solutions containing...? box at support.microsoft.com)

Command-Line Switches for Windows Explorer

Q130510

HOW TO: Customize the Windows Explorer Views

Q307856
/n Opens a new single-pane Window for the default selection.
/e Starts Windows Explorer using its default view.
/root,

by gene horton

Since the user is in another location, I can only assist over the phone and via e-mail. But, she says this helped. She is setting up WinNT Explorer and making her shortcuts as discussed above. I had suggest this before but, I wanted another "head" to confirm this for me. Thanks.

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