Customize explorer detailed view columns depending on file type/amount through REG files..?

What i want to do is set the detailed views to have different colums depending on the type of files in the browsed folder. That added to the usual (name, date, type, size). For example, for videos, i want to have "lenght" "frame width" and "image frequency". But i don't want them for ALL video folders. That's the thing.

Ideally i want a REG file that will set the view how i want by putting it in the actual folder, so that it applies ONLY in that folder (and remembers it). If thats not possible, then a reg file that will set the view in a specific way depending in what the folders contains (for example only applies to folders contains AT LEAST 100 video files).

Please tell me how i could achieve this, and if it's not possible by using a reg, then how would it be possible? The goal is obviously to avoid having to right clic colums, go to others, and then add them.. That for ALL the folders i want to customize (there are a lot obviously). Thanks :)

The view for each folder is saved to the Bags key in the registry, but you can't simply add a new key by folder path. Each view is indexed via the BagMRU key in a very tricky format using PIDLs. There is no API for that system. In theory, it's possible to reverse engineer and add an entry behind Explorer's back, but I have spent too many hours trying to do that in C# and have made no real progress.

I think the best you can do is use my FolderViewPainter tool. It drives Explorer to add the view entry if it doesn't already exist. The limitation is that it can only update one folder at a time (i.e. it can't do a whole folder tree).

It will save the tedium of selecting columns, sort order, etc. for each folder, so I think it will significantly reduce your steps.

See
Apply Folder View to All Folders of Same Template Type - ElevenForumTutorials
So you can, for example, set up one Videos folder the way you want it then make all other Videos type folders have the same view.

Denis

Try3 said:

See
Apply Folder View to All Folders of Same Template Type - ElevenForumTutorials


Denis

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I dont think you read/understood me fully since you reply this..

sucribe said:

But i don't want them for ALL video folders

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Sorry, I missed that sentence.
I think your only option is to set each desired folder individually.


Denis

To understand how difficult it is
Decoding registry binary data