WinSetView (Tool to Globally Set Explorer Folder Views)

Yours clicked my thought to scan some other files already in Downloads.
Hah ! Defender has taken to flag everything with that same "possible... hijack" warning.

Well, another fix to do.

Thanks.

anyname said:

Yours clicked my thought to scan some other files already in Downloads.
Hah ! Defender has taken to flag everything with that same "possible... hijack" warning.

Well, another fix to do.

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Try clearing the Defender history:

It's also an option in this tool package:

Thank you very much. I ran ClearDefenderHistory, will restart later, will report in a few hours.

Ok, I restarted Windows, again scanned WinSetView.zip (and another), good now. ClearDefenderHistory did the fix. Neat.

Information for readers :
"possible... hijack" (any file that I scan) returned.
Again snuffed it with the ClearDefenderHistory.

I made a mess. Would appreciate some help, thanks. More details:

Equalness said:

I made a mess. Would appreciate some help, thanks. More details:

How to revert WinSetView changes?

Hi, this may sound embarrassing, but I just applied what I thought was the recommended settings from this program (I was overwhelmed with how many settings it had, and I didn't want to spend hours learning every bit of it). The changes weren't bad per se, but it made the files much smaller in...

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It seems this has been covered in your duplicate post elsewhere.

WinSetView 3.1.6

Bug Fix: Fixed minor bug in Folder View Options Detect current settings.

WinSetView 3.1.7

Enhancement: Path properties added to right-click pick list for Downloads folder. See “Show paths in search results only” section in manual for details.
Bug Fix: Explorer Options > Detect Current Settings now correctly detects all Windows 11 options.
Bug Fix: Path properties blue highlight corrected on app startup when “Show paths in search results only” is unchecked.

Hi,

thanks to Les (& others) for WinSetView, very useful tool !

All the best from Germany

Stefan

StefanH said:

Hi,

thanks to Les (& others) for WinSetView, very useful tool !

All the best from Germany

Stefan

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You're welcome!

I take the general inactivity of this thread as a sign of how well Winsetview does its job, and I'm loathe to disturb the still waters. But I've had an annoying issue for quite a while and am not sure what might be the culprit. Curiously, I've had a similar issue before, though not on the same machine. Anyway, I have Winsetview set to XP mode in List view with Auto Arrange unchecked. However, Windows 11 ignores the latter.

Below is a screenshot of my Winsetview settings, so you can see that I have indeed unchecked auto-arrange:



I recall being told during my previous problem with this issue that maybe XP mode wasn't even on, and I could check that by changing to dark mode, in which case I would see dark text. Or, rather, not see it because it would blend in with the dark background. Well, maybe that's my problem, because here's a sample window in dark mode, and as you can see my Windows-controlled text is all white (the names of files in the window are a dark rust because that part of Winsetview is working--consult the "System text color" setting in first screenshot).



So if I have XP mode chosen in Winsetview but it's not actually on, what can I do about that? I have Windhawk installed but it is currently off, so that's not interfering. I have done a fair bit of registry hacking but mainly by way of Brink's tuts, such as turning off the 'drop tray', the annoying popdown tab that appears at the top of a screen when a file is dragged, but I can't see how any of the things I've done would interfere with Winsetview being able to inject XP mode into Windows 11. And I've not taken a hammer to my system with Hibit or Revo. I want to do that soon but for a couple of months RL has been too insistent to allow for serious experimentation and troubleshooting, so I've been putting it off. I have a little window right now, though, so I'd like to get this niggling auto-arrange issue resolved if possible, then take an image I can fall back on, and then start wielding the hammer.

schmibble said:

I have Winsetview set to XP mode in List view with Auto Arrange unchecked. However, Windows 11 ignores the latter.

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With XP/Vista mode enabled you should be able to freely arrange items in Details and Icon views. However, those arrangements will not stick in Windows 11.

This is mentioned in the manual:

Windows XP/Vista view mode

when this option is enabled, you can freely rearrange files and folders in Details and Icon views, but those arrangements will be forgotten when the folder is closed, unless you are running Windows 7, Windows 8.x, or a Windows 10 build that is lower than 1703.

Since manual arrangements do not stick in Windows 11, setting Autoarrange off only ensures that while you're in a folder and add or remove files, it will not re-sort them. Once you close and re-open the folder it will always be sorted.

I've tried this utility, but there's a window that asks me if I want to execute an script from an HTML file (this app) when I click submit, I say yes, nothing happens. Neither reset windows defaults, set views, anything. I've tried even installing Java (I assumed this used Java) but same thing happens. Any idea what I need to do in order to use this utility? I''d like to see if I can solve an issue with Libraries I'm having since I updated to April 30th cumulative update.

It doesn't use Java. It uses JScript which is built into Windows. Windows does not have an option to remove JScript, but it can be removed with third party tools such as NTLite.

Please post a screenshot of the error message.

LesFerch said:

It doesn't use Java. It uses JScript which is built into Windows. Windows does not have an option to remove JScript, but it can be removed with third party tools such as NTLite.

Please post a screenshot of the error message.

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Right away!



Click yes or no, nothing happens either way...

DarkShadowMD said:

Right away!

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Click yes or no, nothing happens either way...

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That corresponds to where it tries to save your preferences. If you're running from a writable location, it should save that data to an "AppData" folder within the WinSetView folder. If you're running from a location that is read-only (without elevating as admin), such as Program Files (x86), then it should write that data to your AppData folder (%AppData%\WinSetView).

Maybe your AV software is blocking it. Do you have Ransomware Protection (aka Controlled Folder Access) enabled? Where are you running WinSetView from (i.e. portable install or installed using exe)?

It's portable version (ZIP file), running from the desktop. Supposedly, I should have permissions there, I've tried moving it to C, or documents folder, but same thing happens. AV is disabled because this is a VM (To try things I always disable Defender in there since Defender in my host detects stuff inside the VM)

That sounds like it should work. Let's see if you can run any JScript script. Try this:

LaunchIE.js​

This script launched an IE window, no errors

EDIT: I don't know what happened... I just redownloaded the app... all is working.
Probably something corrupted or whatever when I copied the app folder from another location.

Ignore my dumbassery lol