Is there a way to disable Windows automatically choosing folder templates?

Posted by Scott Leis on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Scott Leis
Published on 2010-06-07T05:18:59Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 5:23 UTC
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Windows Vista (and I guess Win 7 though I haven't used it) sometimes automatically applies templates to folders opened in Explorer based on their content. E.g. a folder with photos automatically gets the columns "Date taken", "Tags", and "Rating".

Is there a way to disable the automatic application of this feature while still allowing manual customisation?
I really want to apply the "All Items" template to all folders on all drives, and have it stay that way except on a few folders that I manually customise.

The reason I want to disable the automatic behaviour is that it's often just wrong. I have folders with over 100 files where Windows has automatically applied a template based on the types of one or two of those files, and the template is wrong for everything else in the same folder.

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