Enable or Disable Auto Arrange in Folders in Windows 10

tinutuva · 28 Dec 2015

Thank you for this awesome work! Please look at the files that you uploaded for Disable_Auto_Arrange_in_File_Explorer-Details.bat and Disable_Auto_Arrange_in_File_Explorer-Icons.bat, they are the same and contain multiple reg programs. Which one will disable autoarrange, keep align to grid, and use small icons?

Brink · 28 Dec 2015

Hello tinutuva, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

The .bat files are different. Step 2 will give you details view (columns).

If you like, you could also do the tutorial afterwards to set a default folder view with small icons to all folders.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

tinutuva · 28 Dec 2015

Hello Brink, I'm glad I found this forum. I will certainly read the tutorial and I plan to go through many tutorials on the forum. I just compared the 2 differently named files that I downloaded from this post and they each contain:
:: To reset all folder views to default
:: To turn off full row select setting
:: To disable sniff folder feature and sets folder type to not specific
:: Disable Auto Arrange for General Items (not specific) folder template
:: Disable Auto Arrange for Documents folder template
:: Disable Auto Arrange for Music folder template
:: Disable Auto Arrange for Pictures folder template
:: Disable Auto Arrange for Videos folder template
:: To kill and restart explorer

I always view a .bat file in Notepad before I run it so I can understand the code and that's how I saw these. If I'm not mistaken, anyone who runs either of these .bat files will run all the reg changes in all of these programs sequentially. If you download them from the links in the post you'll see it too.

Brink · 28 Dec 2015

Yep, that part is the same, but if you compare the icon values, you'll see a difference between them.

tinutuva · 29 Dec 2015

Ah, now I see it, I'll try this when I get home.

Thank you for your patience. I have one more quick question. What value do I set Icon to for small icons?

Brink · 29 Dec 2015

It's no problem tinutuva.

I don't know the value for small icons, but you can do the tutorial afterwards to set a default folder view with small icons to all folders.

Folder View - Set a Default for all Folders in Windows 10

btsterli · 29 Jan 2016

Thanks for doing this Shawn. I have two quick questions:

1) Does the change apply to all users on the system or just the user who ran the .bat file?

2) I really only want to use this for some picture folders. Would it still work if I modified the .bat file and deleted the rows for General Items, Documents, Music, and Videos but left the Pictures part untouched? I assume if that's a valid approach then obviously I also have to make sure I have the properties for the folders I want to arrange set to type "Pictures" right?

Brink · 29 Jan 2016

Hello btsterli, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

Q1) This will only be applied to the current user, and not all users.

Q2) The way the .bat file works is that it will reset all folder views back to default first, then apply a view with auto arrange disabled for each folder type. You can safely remove the other folder sections from the .bat file to not have auto arrange disabled for them, but they will still get reset back to default.

btsterli · 29 Jan 2016

Great, thanks. So just to be clear, for those sections at the top (reset folder views, turn off full row select, disable sniff folder feature), I should leave those alone since they appear to be more global settings and can't really be set per folder type?

Just out of curiosity, what are those settings (full row select and sniff folder)? I guess you managed to figure out they need to be turned off in order for this to work? I'm curious what functionality we might be missing with these turned off. Probably nothing too special I assume.