Windows 10: built-in folder templates

hello, i cant find an answer to what i am trying to achieve so i'll appreciate anyone's help..


There are 5 built-in folder view templates General, document, music, videos & picture i know i can change and save the view options in these 5 templates and i found lots of answers, my question is can i add a custom template of my own in addition to the 5 views in windows ??


thank you, i'll appreciate the help

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Folder Template with shortcut to folder inside folder.

I showed you the principle of a method that will do what you wish. To apply it to any folder structure you need to understand how it works.

• In my shortcut I defined the "Start in" folder as %CD%. This means that the shortcut must use the
  current folder as its base. In my example this was C:\Templates\Template1\TestA.
• For the shortcut I used this command line:
  
  explorer.exe ..\TestB\Target
  
  What exactly does this do? Here is the explanation:
  
  1. "..\" tells Explorer to step on up in the directory tree:
  
  C:\Templates\Template1\TestA -> C:\Templates\Template1
  
  2. "TestB" tells Explorer to steop one down in the directory tree:
  
  C:\Templates\Template1 -> C:\Templates\Template1\TestB
  
  3. "Target" tells Explorer to open the file or folder "Target".

Applying this knowledge, you could create a shortcut that makes Explorer step up two folders:

Explorer.exe ..\..\Template2\TestB\Target

C:\Templates\Template1\TestA

-> C:\Templates\Template1

-> C:\Templates

-> C:\Templates\Template2

-> C:\Templates\Template1\TestB

-> Open "Target"

Armed with this knowledge you can now fix your shortcut yourself.

 

Changing Built-In Folder View Templates For Windows Explorer

Yep: fully aware of the difference here

I desire to change the built-in templates as the Libraries ignore the setting if you tell them to optimise for "General items" but will happily comply with the default templates for "Documents", "Music", "Pictures" or "Videos", along with all subfolders.

If I can amend those built-in templates (heck, even one of them!), then I can force Windows 10 to display files how I want and work around the bug that is causing all subfolders to display as "details" instead of the setting I have told it to use via "apply to all folders".

The unacceptable way around this is to manually change the view for each and every folder and subfolder when viewed via the Libraries, which I naturally refuse to do.

 

Changing Built-In Folder View Templates For Windows Explorer

Thank you for your reply, but nope, that's not what I'm asking to do.

I'm trying to actually amend the built-in templates for each of those settings within Windows 10 so that I can indeed use them, but they'll display my custom folder view because I've amended the templates.

I'm basically trying to work around an issue with Windows 10 since the Anniversary update whereby Libraries are ignoring my folder view settings and showing every single deity-damned folder and subfolder as "details" until I manually change them, rather than accepting the global folder view setting I've told it to use.

Since the folder view settings other than "General items" are carried to each and every subfolder, I need to amend the default, built-in folder view settings for these templates.

What I'm after is:
• Where these templates are located
• How to change them to custom settings

Most likely this will involve a few edits to the registry, possibly a few file tweaks even.