Changing Built-In Folder View Templates For Windows Explorer

kado897 said:

I suspect the templates are stored in the registry under some undecipherable GUID. Your second point however is exactly what the tutorial I linked to is designed to do without the need for registry edits.

Sadly the tutorial does not work for this specific issue.

This is related to a bug in the anniversary edition of Windows 10. As such, the Libraries are ignoring the global "apply to all" folder setting, so no number of tutorials will help me.

I appreciate the answers from everyone, but please can I ask that everyone kindly re-read my original post in order to avoid missing the point of this thread. If I have not clarified the exact issue in precise enough detail, please just advise and I'll try to make this even clearer for everyone to avoid confusion.

I am in no way ungrateful for everyone trying to help, but so far everyone has sadly missed the gist of the issue here.

The tutorial itself that has been suggested even talks about the "five built-in templates" in "Windows 10". Since there is a bug whereby Windows 10 Libraries are ignoring my custom views, I need to actually amend the built-in templates in order to fix the issue once and for all.

Please advise if you have information or can find information regarding the details I would need to alter in the registry to make a forced change to these templates.

Thank you kindly everyone!

I've come to the conviction that you can't apply the desired view to "all folders" in Libraries because, if you've added other locations, it might, through some strange phenomenon, change the view in the parent folder(s) that the Library link points to. I could be dreamin though, but that's my story and I'm stickin with it for now!

kado897 said:

Libraries are not file system objects they are shell objects their presentation in File Explorer is entirely overseen by the shell. They are physically stored in the file system as XML objects located at C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries. You can view and modify(probably not a good idea) the XML in a text editor.

Thanks for the info. Those XML objects seem to apply to the actual system Libraries themselves though.

I'm trying to amend the built-in templates in Windows that just happen to share the sames names as these Libraries.

Anselhelm said:
"I'm trying to actually amend the built-in templates for each of those settings within Windows 10 so that I can indeed use them, but they'll display my custom folder view because I've amended the templates."
This is what I wish to do. Can anyone advise me how to do this? TIA.

Tharwatime said:

Anselhelm said:
"I'm trying to actually amend the built-in templates for each of those settings within Windows 10 so that I can indeed use them, but they'll display my custom folder view because I've amended the templates."
This is what I wish to do. Can anyone advise me how to do this? TIA.

Yes, I can. What aspects of the view are you wanting to modify???

Keith, thanks for the prompt reply. I want most folders to have details, with the order date modified, file name, size and file type. Pictures are to start with date taken. Some folders will have the name first, and that can easily be done manually once for each folder.

First of all, have you used the Apply to Folders feature at all? That will allow you to set custom views for the common FolderTypes (Generic, Docuemts, Music, Picures, Videos, and Downloads). But it doesn't affect Libraries or Search Results. To modify those, we have to edit the registry.

And, to clarify, you want Date Modified/Taken to be the first column in a Details view, before the Name, right? I'm guess sort by Date, most recent first?

Thanks again. I have not heard of and cannot find Apply to Folders. Can you please advise where this is located? Apply to Folders sounds like what I want. Your understanding is correct in that I want Date modified (most folders) and Date taken (pictures) as the first column, most recent on top. I'm not going into the Registry, thar there be dragons. The Libraries and Search results are acceptable as is.