Guest marinusw Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 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 Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 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 news:009E7DB4-3BF8-4648-BBB7-B57F79484E7B@microsoft.com... > 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. Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 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. -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
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