I have been searching for a way to change Vista's default behavior in "open"
and "save as" dialog boxes since I started using the operating system. It is
very frustrating. Vista's default view in dialog boxes seems to be the
thumbnail view. You can change it inside each box when it opens, but closing
and re-opening the box restores the default view. This is extremely
frustrating if you like the detailed list view instead. I do not want to see
thumbnail views of files most of the time. Is there a way to change the
default view inside dialog boxes to the detailed list view?

It responds to settings you can make for folder type. A 'pictures' folder
will open thumbnails, and documents folder, icons. You can go to the
properties of the folder to set the type on the 'customize' tab. It will
also use the 'view' setting for the folder, if Folder Options are set to
allow that.

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"Pat Conlon" <Pat [email]Conlon@discussions.microsoft.com[/email]> wrote in message
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> I have been searching for a way to change Vista's default behavior in
> "open"
> and "save as" dialog boxes since I started using the operating system. It
> is
> very frustrating. Vista's default view in dialog boxes seems to be the
> thumbnail view. You can change it inside each box when it opens, but
> closing
> and re-opening the box restores the default view. This is extremely
> frustrating if you like the detailed list view instead. I do not want to
> see
> thumbnail views of files most of the time. Is there a way to change the
> default view inside dialog boxes to the detailed list view?[/color]