Windows Vista: Force the ‘All Items’ view to all folders!
Once the major annoyances of Vista is the way it changes the folder view based on the files inside of it. Add some pictures and suddenly your downloads folder turns into a picture template. Arg! Anyways, after some searching, I found a solution here.
Copy the text between the lines below into notepad & save as AllItemsView.reg file. (Or download this one).
Watch out for line wrap — [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Shell] is all one line, there is a space between ‘Local’ and ‘Settings’.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
“FolderType”=”NotSpecified”
Merging the AllItemsView.reg file will set the ‘All Items’ template for any folders that don’t currently have a view saved with a different template.
You can clear all saved views by deleting the “HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags” key BEFORE merging the AllItemsView.reg file. (Using Start->Run->RegEdit).
If any folders open with a different template after clearing the ‘Bags’ key & merging the .reg file, they most likely have a template specified via their desktop.ini file.
