The line of options at the top, lets you choose the view type. The HTA file is just a GUI (front-end) for the PS1 script. You may have noticed that WinSetView's icon looks like the PowerShell icon, that's because the tool is a script. The program's interface should open, we'll get to it in a second. Extract it to a folder, and run the file that is labeled WinSetView.hta. Select 'Download Zip', and it will fetch you a 25KB archive. To download it, head to the project's GitHub page, and click on the Code button (Green colored). The program is open source, and portable. Want to set the same view for all the directories in one go? WinSetView does that. So, you will have to set the view type manually for these folders. Go on and try it, switch to these directories, and you will see that each of those has a different view.

Windows has quite a few system folders or user folders, such as Downloads, Music, Videos, Documents, etc. The last part is what's important, it doesn't say 'All Folders', meaning the setting does not apply to every directory. When you click Submit, the hta/VBS script will pass your choices as parameters to WinSetView.ps1, which will make the changes, and then restart Explorer.You may have used Explorer's options, to set a specific view as the default one for all folders of the type. The tool includes two files: WinSetView.hta (HTML GUI with VBScript code) and WinSetView.ps1 (Powershell command line script).ĭouble-click WinSetView.hta to open the GUI. It also includes an option to fully reset all Explorer views to Windows default values. A restore option is provided, allowing you to roll back to any of these backups. WinSetView makes a unique backup file of the affected registry value(s) on each run. WinSetView does not alter your machine's settings, and no elevated privileges are required. For best results, close all open apps before running this tool, as any open applications can prevent open/save dialog views from being correctly updated.Īll changes made by WinSetView are per-user within the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive in the registry. Using WinSetView is pretty much self-explanatory. The selection will be enabled across all folders. WinSetView will permit you to set the Details View with a user-defined selection of column headings. WinSetView allows you to set Windows Explorer folder views globally.

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