Windows 10: How do i get rid of the yesterday, today stuff in folders

I know this question has been answered before but for some reason some my folders keep going back to the Today, Yesterday etc. format and i like to use large icons and some of my folders are defaulting back to the Details format, they won't stay at what i set them at. is there some way to permanently stop Windows use of this type of folder setup, i'm fed up with having to adjust each and every folder only to have Windows ignore my settings.

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downloads folder

In file explorer, specifically the downloads folder....how does one change the layout of the contents inside the folder. I don't like to see the split level stuff....today, yesterday and earlier this week. I just like it the old way of a single alphabetized list.

 

Unable to retrieve stuff list in Ovi store via Nokia N8

Ok, so yesterday my ovi stuff list appeared again, today it's gone...whatever the problem is it seems to be variant

 

Win 10 How to get rid of Windows.old folder and content.


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As always, there seems to be lots of alleged fixes out there, which may work on versions earlier than Win 10... but not with Win 10. The struggle for getting rid of this now un-needed bloat seems to be wrapped up in file permissions. But even when I try to clobber it with administrative authority, it won't budge. One fix suggests that you can use disk cleanup to get rid of it by selecting previous installation files. Heh. Yeah. Just TRY and find that option in Win 10.

Ok. Somebody hopefully has managed to resolve this inigma. Step by step, please.