Windows 10: Why has File Explorer folder view customization General, Music, Video, etc. STILL not been...

The issue described at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/customize-folder-view-does-not-apply-to-subfolders/eebd106c-6685-4500-bab6-5617f0dcaefe is still an active bug even in the very latest release builds of Windows 11. Why has this bug STILL not been fixed even after 2 years? Who is making bug prioritization decisions there in Redmond, and why haven't they been fired yet for being incompetent?

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Change Folder View Layout in Windows 10


"uhm that method does not work. i want to set folder view as List as default instead Details for all folders"
Did you download and run Brink's .bat file in Step 1 ? Lacking that, look at the screens in post 3. In Step 5 'folders of this type' defaults to each of the Windows templates for Pictures, Music, etc. If you want ALL folders to have the same List view, r-click any folder in each of the 5 folders under This PC (Desktop does not apply) and hit 'Customize this folder'. Set to 'Optimize this folder for General Items". Then follow the screen in post 3 using List instead of Details in Step 1 and you should be good to go.

 

File Explorer: can't get files in sub folders to adopt same display/view

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

1

Open a folder in File Explorer.

Set your preferred view on that folder.

Click the 3 dots at the top of File Explorer and select 'Options'

On the View tab of the resulting dialog, click 'Apply to Folders' and save that setting

That will set the default view for all folders of that type.

2

There are 5 different folder types in Windows (Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music and General Items)

To set your view in all folders in Windows, you need to perform the steps in 1 above for one folder of each type.

 

Cannot customize Windows folders to the desired type

On Windows 10, File Explorer includes five different templates to customize the view of folders, including "General items" (default for every new folder), "Documents," "Pictures," "Music," and "Videos." Unfortunately, for some unknown reasons, I cannot customize
my folders from the default "General items" to "Documents," "Pictures," "Music," and "Videos." Below are the steps that I used.



1) Start File Explorer and select the target folder for change.

2) Right-click against the folder to select "Properties."

3) Select the Customize tab on the top right.

4) Under the "Optimize this folder for:", select "Pictures."

5) Select yes for "Also apply this template to all subfolders"

6) Click <OK>



Windows accepted the change without giving any error. But when I verify if the target folder get changed, it is no, it is still customized for "General items." (not "Pictures"). The same situation happens when I try to change the target folder to other
types (such as "Documents," "Music," and "Videos.").



The above same problem also appears when I try to make a change to all other folders. For step 6), I have also tried to click <Apply>, then <OK>, but the result is the same.



Any idea on how to solve the above issue?



Yours truly,

Patrick