Troubleshooting Windows Vista

Nikhil Rastogi, May 04, 2008 1121 hrs IST

Here's what the expert has to say about your Vista-related issues

EXPERT REVIEW

Blanket solution

If you want all your folders to look the same, no matter which you open, then here is a good blanket solution that does the same for you. Keep in mind though, that every drive partition (C:\, D:\, E:\, etc) that you have, the same steps below will need to be replicated for each drive/partition.

Repeat the steps above to set your folder view the way you would like it.

1. In Vista the normal File, Edit, View menu options are hidden. Click on the Alt key on the keyboard to pop out the menu bar above.

2. Now click on Tools | Folder Options.

3. Go to the View tab, click on Apply to Folders.

4. A new dialog box opens up confirming that you want to set all the folder settings of this drive to one view setting, click Yes and the OK.

This should ideally fix the problem and it did for my aunt. Now she can stop swearing at the PC.

If Windows still does not yield, I recommend using the following method.

Tip - Keep in mind that view modes in a folder is not equivalent to re-arranging data in a folder but just the way you view it. You are merely changing view preferences, which would be reset as soon as you take your data to another computer. Computers place priorities to special characters such as underscores (_), hypens (-) first, numbers second and then alphabets last. So if you want a file/folder to always be on top (the first one viewed), it must have any of these three conditions as true, e.g. a folder with a name as 0 New folder would always be the first one due to the presence of a number 0 in it's very name.

Software Solution

There's a wonderful free app that can really help here; it is known as ExplorerView. http://sdsoftware.org/default.asp?id=11214 Download it and follow the prompts for installing application.

On opening the program, click on Disallow Explorer to Auto-Detect Folder Contents. Clicking OK would ask you to restart the computer which you should for Windows to remember the setting.

USER COMMENTS

thanx buddy....... but suggest me if i can do it in one go for every folder.

by gumshu, INDIA, on May 06, 2008 05:31 PM, Report abuse Reply

I feel buying Windows Vista Business with a 2 GB RAM minimum will be better rather a best option than Windows XP ...as it has better opiton .r Load two operating system in a same system by hard drive partition.So that you can use Vistas aero experience and advantages of XP

by Kiran P.S, Indore, on May 05, 2008 06:39 PM, Report abuse Reply

ubuntu is not that rgeat . opensuse is more tsable. but frankly windows xp is the best os till date for most users. until open gl matches directx and game devels adopt open gl . *nix does not stand any chance to blow away windows.

by vinay, mumbai, on May 05, 2008 02:50 PM, Report abuse Reply

Thanks a lot, this problem was really getting on my nerves, i had decided to bear this problem by convincing myself that its a bug. But your advice really helped and worked.

by Abhishek Khanna, New Delhi, on May 05, 2008 12:33 PM, Report abuse Reply

Troubleshoting Windows Vista

by Sachi Kant, Bhubaneswar, on May 05, 2008 11:43 AM, Report abuse Reply

it is very nice

by vashu, kanpur, on May 05, 2008 11:31 AM, Report abuse Reply

an easy one would be, download and install ubuntu

by jaime, ny, on May 04, 2008 11:44 AM, Report abuse Reply

TRUE...

by Rahul, New Delhi, on May 05, 2008 11:16 AM, Report abuse

Please, don't be such a penguin. Ubuntu is not for everybody. Be realistic, people who suggest Ubuntu at the drop of a hat put people off others from using Linux.

by Bob, here, on May 04, 2008 06:38 PM, Report abuse Reply

yeah ubuntu is for ,y 3 yrs old kid and my sisters kids . it is for who do not want to pirate softwares . it is ofr who wanted to learn. I dont think you learned vista or windows when you are a child. Grow up people.

by ubuntu, chennai, on May 05, 2008 06:56 AM, Report abuse

Vista is G A Y !!!

by ADSL, Router, on May 04, 2008 05:52 PM, Report abuse Reply

Please suggest what I can do to fix my mic problems in Vista.

by Chuck, Noida, on May 04, 2008 01:59 PM, Report abuse Reply