Columns in Windows Explorer

Question

In the "good ol' days" Windows Explorer used to offer columns for date, size and type. That was exactly what I needed. Now, Windows guesses what information I want to see, so my music folders show number(?), title, contributing artists and album. That may be helpful for some, but is meaningless to me.

I have been manually changing these columns, but with hundreds of folders to go I am wondering if there is any way to do this in bulk. Is there any means of changing the folder columns so that all of the folders within (and all of the folders with those) change to what I would like them to be?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I guarantee there will still be more folders and file dialogs that are not set to your liking. If you want to get absolutely every folder type set to your preferred views, including the open/save dialogs, you'll need this tool: WinSetView

Answer 2

Hi George, glad to help!

Answer 3

Yes, that works - thank you very much!

george

Answer 4

Hi GLSmyth

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Open a folder of music files

Set your view the way you like a music folder to look like.

At the top of File Explorer, click the 3 dots and select Options.

On the resulting dialog, select the View tab

Click 'Apply to Folders' and save that setting

That should set for the view of all folders of the type 'Music'.