Windows 10: View settings for This PC in Save Dialogs

Windows 10 20H2

I'm looking for a registry setting to change the default view for "This PC" in Save dialogs, since Explorer ignores changes to the view in that context.

Just to be clear, there is no issue if I open "This PC" from the desktop and change the view. In the example below, I changed to Details with grouping set to None. These changes stick just fine.




If I'm in an app, such as Notepad and go to Save As, "This PC" will start with the Tiles view grouped by type. This is expected because it's a different view of "This PC". However, if I then change the view settings for "This PC" within the Save dialog, those changes don't stick. Below is the screen shot where I've changed the view for "This PC" within the Save dialog to Details and no grouping...




As soon as I click on another folder and then click back on "This PC", the view reverts back to Tiles and group by type.




This is inconsistent with typical Explorer behavior which does save the view you select (whether it reverts back later is another issue). I tested with several user accounts, so I'm pretty sure this behavior is not unique to my machine, but it would great to get confirmation, if nothing else.

:)

 

Set Default Folder View for all Folders in Windows 10


Hello buythiscomputer,

If you did all the steps in the tutorial on the first page, your folder view should be applied to all folders.

Just to note, view settings will not be applied to libraries, This PC, and open and save as dialog boxes.

 

Force list view in the Open-Save dialog possible?

A the left, major part of the image, is shown up the Open - Save dialog that show the cursed Icons by default in Win XP SP 1.0a... I do wonder, if I can modify the comdlg32.dll somehow (or registry?) to FORCE the Open-Save dialogue to open always default with the list view, as shown in the right part of the image:





I tried hard searching on Google for the comdlg32.dll internals, but did not found anything usefull. I think that it will be something in the dialogue no. 1547 (when one have disabled the places bar, witch places it will be the no. 1552) in comdlg32.dll file:

Code: 1547 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 537, 334 STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | DS_CONTEXTHELP | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPCHILDREN | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU CAPTION "Otevřít" LANGUAGE LANG_CZECH, 0x1 FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg" { CONTROL "Oblast &hledání:", 1091, STATIC, SS_LEFT | SS_NOTIFY | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 3, 4, 49, 8 CONTROL "", 1137, COMBOBOX, CBS_DROPDOWNLIST | CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED | CBS_HASSTRINGS | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP, 53, 1, 149, 300 CONTROL "", 1088, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD, 211, 1, 88, 16 CONTROL "", 1120, LISTBOX, LBS_NOTIFY | LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | LBS_MULTICOLUMN | WS_CHILD | WS_BORDER | WS_HSCROLL, 1, 18, 535, 284[/quote] But all these dropdown lists show only 4 numbers, witch is basically their position and size... Not what is pre-selected by them.

So, maybe I have to edit the dialog this way?





I don't know, but any ideas are more that wellcome! Thanks!

 

File explorer save options view

The SaveAs dialog is a separate uility to File explorer. So you need to set it up separately to list things the way you want.

Open a SaveAs dialog in Notepad. Get it into Details view using the More options button in the upper-right area then click on the header at the top of the name column and your folders / files will be listed alphabetically. The SaveAs dialog will retain this setting for the next time you use it.

Then test that the SaveAs dialog in the application you referred to in your question behaves as expected. Some applications insist on generating their own SaveAs dialogs and they might or might not follow the same rules as the proper Windows SaveAs dialog.

Denis