Win XP Explorer - Not Responding

[Guest marinusw]

When I use XP explorer to view the contents of a folder it freezes and does

not show the contents. When I go into Task Manager it says the program is Not

Responding. This only happens with a select few subdirectories. I suspect it

may be due to a large file in the directory I am viewing and "thumbnails"

possiblly set as the view option. But that is just a guess. Any ideas? How

can I change the view options (i.e. to Details) without actually having to go

into that folder? (since the problem is it freezes before I can get it).

Thanks for the help.

[Guest 3c273]

Re: Win XP Explorer - Not Responding

 

You could set them all to details by setting a different folder to detail

view then going to tools>options>view and click "like current view".

Louis

 

"marinusw" <marinusw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> When I use XP explorer to view the contents of a folder it freezes and

does

> not show the contents. When I go into Task Manager it says the program is

Not

> Responding. This only happens with a select few subdirectories. I suspect

it

> may be due to a large file in the directory I am viewing and "thumbnails"

> possiblly set as the view option. But that is just a guess. Any ideas? How

> can I change the view options (i.e. to Details) without actually having to

go

> into that folder? (since the problem is it freezes before I can get it).

> Thanks for the help.

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Win XP Explorer - Not Responding

 

The date and time was 9/9/2008 2:14 PM, and on a whim, marinusw pounded

out on the keyboard:

> When I use XP explorer to view the contents of a folder it freezes and does

> not show the contents. When I go into Task Manager it says the program is Not

> Responding. This only happens with a select few subdirectories. I suspect it

> may be due to a large file in the directory I am viewing and "thumbnails"

> possiblly set as the view option. But that is just a guess. Any ideas? How

> can I change the view options (i.e. to Details) without actually having to go

> into that folder? (since the problem is it freezes before I can get it).

> Thanks for the help.

 

Open Explorer in a folder, any folder. Make the folder look the way you

want (Detail view, etc). Then click on Tools, Folder Options, View tab.

By clicking the "Apply to all folders" button, you will make all your

folders look like the one you just modified.

 

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Terry R.

 

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