OK, so Windows 8 does a lot of counter-intuitive things that are maddening as hell, but the one that I'm struggling with (today) is how to make each folder view different. I work with photographs quite a bit, and have them sorted into their own folders. These folders are listed by a stock number. When looking through a list of folders by stock number, it is obviously most practical and useful to view them as a list. Click VIEW > LIST and everything is fine.
Find the folder I want and open it. It's full of photos, which I would like to view as thumbnails. Click VIEW > Large Icons. Good.
Go back to the main directory with all the folders with stock numbers, and they are all now thumbnails, not a list. Click VIEW > LIST and I get my list back. Go back into the folder with pictures and it's a list.
So how the hell do I set it so that the behavior of one folder doesn't dictate the behavior of ALL folders? All the older operating systems did this naturally, but Windows 8 seems to think that I want them all the same all the time. I've already wasted more time than I'd care to admit looking for the answer.
Anyone remember when Windows was fairly intuitive and you could at least feel your way through the menus and figure it out? God I miss those days...
Find the folder I want and open it. It's full of photos, which I would like to view as thumbnails. Click VIEW > Large Icons. Good.
Go back to the main directory with all the folders with stock numbers, and they are all now thumbnails, not a list. Click VIEW > LIST and I get my list back. Go back into the folder with pictures and it's a list.
So how the hell do I set it so that the behavior of one folder doesn't dictate the behavior of ALL folders? All the older operating systems did this naturally, but Windows 8 seems to think that I want them all the same all the time. I've already wasted more time than I'd care to admit looking for the answer.
Anyone remember when Windows was fairly intuitive and you could at least feel your way through the menus and figure it out? God I miss those days...
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP