Could have been a power cut in your home......That would explain why the
monitor was still on....

Did your alarm clocks, or video timer change?


"folderguy" <comic_book_auctions******.com> wrote in message
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>
> I got home today, and I always leave my computer on. For some reason,
> it had turned off by itself. I dont know whether this had anything to
> do with vista. What do you think happened? My monitor was still on,
> just the pc was off. I've been running vista now for 3 months and I've
> never had this happen,...didnt install any new hardware of software
> recently either.
>
>
> --
> folderguy[/color]

That script is for folders that take on the wrong template (documents,
music, pics, etc) and don't have a 'Customize' tab in their Properties
dialog (Programs, Computer, System Drive), which allows the user to restore
the 'All Items' template.

You sound more like a victim of content-sniffing on folders that you can
customize. Try explicitly setting the folders to be 'All Items' and see if
that doesn't help stabilize your views.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"folderguy" <comic_book_auctions******.com> wrote in message
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>
> can anyone confirm if the script above fixes the problem?
>
> I'll set my folders to view as Large Icons, and then Vista, when it
> wants to, resets it to Details view.
>
> I'll also arrange folders customly, and then sometimes vista rearranges
> them by Name.
>
> Will the script fix these problems? Thx.
>
>
> --
> folderguy[/color]

what is content sniffing? i've tried everything...including the all types method and it still does not remember the correct info for specific folders.

If the computer were to shut down as you suggest, the monitor would be
powered off as a function of the normal shutdown.

There was likely a power failure, no matter how brief, that caused this to
happen.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Tom Scott" <tom@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The only thing that i can guess that happened is that the computer shut
> down itself by its power policy or it automatically installed updates.
>
> To check if it is the power policy, click Start, type power, and click on
> the power options. Then check the settings in there.
>
> folderguy wrote:[color=green]
>> I got home today, and I always leave my computer on. For some reason,
>> it had turned off by itself. I dont know whether this had anything to
>> do with vista. What do you think happened? My monitor was still on,
>> just the pc was off. I've been running vista now for 3 months and I've
>> never had this happen,...didnt install any new hardware of software
>> recently either.
>>[/color][/color]

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
news:OlvHLC3gHHA.4520@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> If the computer were to shut down as you suggest, the monitor would be
> powered off as a function of the normal shutdown.
>[/color]

Huh?
Unless we're talking about a laptop, most monitors I'm aware of have to be
turned off separately. Either that, or they go into some kind of low-power
mode, with the power light blinking or perhaps still burning solid but in a
different color to indicate it's in low-power mode.
I realize there are hundred of monitors out there and that I've only used a
handful in my lifetime, so maybe there are monitors that go off
automatically when the computer shuts down. I haven't seen one, though.

Content-sniffing is when Explorer 'guesses' what template to use based on
the folder contents. If there are picture files, it uses the Picture &
Video template; music files, Music Icons or Music Details, etc.

Are you having problems will all folders or just certain ones?


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"folderguy" <comic_book_auctions******.com> wrote in message
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>
> what is content sniffing? i've tried everything...including the all
> types method and it still does not remember the correct info for
> specific folders.
>
>
> --
> folderguy[/color]

it happens with random folders.. they simply forget my settings sometimes, or revert back to Details mode, and sometimes it groups the folder by name, even though I never specified to do that. makes no sense.

folderguy wrote:[color=blue]
> it happens with random folders.. they simply forget my settings
> sometimes, or revert back to Details mode, and sometimes it groups the
> folder by name, even though I never specified to do that. makes no
> sense.
>
>[/color]

I've also been having problems with folders changing view apparently at
random (see thread "Folder views randomly changing", started 14/04/07).
Keith suggested a registry edit to effectively disable the content
sniffing for all folders. That does seem to have worked, but some folder
views were still changing. I later noticed that a particular pair of
folders (Computer and C:\Users\Mark\Documents\Uni\Year4) seem to always
have the same view. If I change the view of one, the other also changes
next time I open it! It's as if both folders are mapped to the same
subkey of "HKCU\....\Bags" - maybe some kind of broken hashing (not
knowing how folders are mapped to the Bags keys...)

I've not yet found any other folders paired in this way, but I have most
of my folders set to the same view anyway so probably wouldn't notice.
Maybe some of these apparently random changes aren't quite as random as
they seem.

Doesn't make them any less annoying though, but at least consistent
problems are usually easier to track down and fix ;o)

"k1190" wrote:
[color=blue]
> I know that there are a lot of posts about Vista's problem with folder views.
> I am getting very frustrated too. I like the way I customise my folders, and
> Vista always ruins them. Just recently, Vista decided that Program files and
> Windows folders contained Music Files and changed them to that template. Now
> the columns contained things like Album, Artist, Rating, things all
> irrelevant to these types of folders. So i tried to go Customize the folder,
> by going to Properties then Customize. There was nothing there; you can't
> customize them. I realised these folders are important system files that
> couldn't be tampered with, but Vista decided to play around with it. So I
> just had to remove those unwanted columns and add the ones i liked. But they
> are still classifed as Music Details folders as evident when i right-click on
> the column bar, and the quick Columns i can insert are all related to Music.
> Is there any way to get the Program files and Windows folders back to the All
> Items template like it was in the first place?
>
> PS. Microsoft should be working on a way to fix the Folder View Problem.[/color]

I've written a script that will fix a folder that doesn't allow
customization. Right-click on the link below and select 'Save Target As...'
and save the
zip to your computer. Then unzip & run the script.


[url]http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/TaskPaneFix-Vista.zip[/url]




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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



"CPP.Dave" <CPP.Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "k1190" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I know that there are a lot of posts about Vista's problem with folder
>> views.
>> I am getting very frustrated too. I like the way I customise my folders,
>> and
>> Vista always ruins them. Just recently, Vista decided that Program files
>> and
>> Windows folders contained Music Files and changed them to that template.
>> Now
>> the columns contained things like Album, Artist, Rating, things all
>> irrelevant to these types of folders. So i tried to go Customize the
>> folder,
>> by going to Properties then Customize. There was nothing there; you can't
>> customize them. I realised these folders are important system files that
>> couldn't be tampered with, but Vista decided to play around with it. So I
>> just had to remove those unwanted columns and add the ones i liked. But
>> they
>> are still classifed as Music Details folders as evident when i
>> right-click on
>> the column bar, and the quick Columns i can insert are all related to
>> Music.
>> Is there any way to get the Program files and Windows folders back to the
>> All
>> Items template like it was in the first place?
>>
>> PS. Microsoft should be working on a way to fix the Folder View Problem.[/color][/color]