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Windows File Explorer, Apply to Folders, doesn't work

When I take the following steps to rearrange my columns so "Type" is moved down so it appears as the last column in Explore and click Apply to Folders, the change does not go through all folders. I have to go through each folder and rearrange columns one by one. Is there a better way or am I doing something wrong? Maybe I'm not understanding what "all folders of this type" means.

WIN+E; From the View tab, Current view group, Group by list arrow, click Choose columns; from Choose Details dialog, highlight Type; click Move Down to move it to end of list; OK.

View tab, Options, Change folder and search options; View tab, Apply to Folders, OK.

Apply to Folders works on a per-type basis. Folder types are: General/Generic, Documents, Photos, Music, Video, Contacts, and a few others. So you have to use it once for each folder type.

You can determine the type of folder by viewing the Customize tab in the folder's Properties dialog:

For each type, Windows creates an entry in the Registry under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults

Here, there is only a template set for Documents, represented by the entry named '{7D49D726-3C21-4F05-99AA-FDC2C9474656}'

You can check here to see if you have a template set. The common folder types are:

-----------                            ----
{5c4f28b5-f869-4e84-8e60-f11db97c5cc7} Generic
{5fa96407-7e77-483c-ac93-691d05850de8} Videos
{7d49d726-3c21-4f05-99aa-fdc2c9474656} Documents
{94d6ddcc-4a68-4175-a374-bd584a510b78} Music
{b3690e58-e961-423b-b687-386ebfd83239} Pictures

So check to see if you have templates set for these types.

Keith

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