Your choice is exactly how mine is set...
From my user folder, I visit/open the folder in question (My Pictures, My Videos, etc.), then RIGHT click on a blank area in the icon area, choose "View", then set to "Large icons", etc.
Hope this helps.
Grif
From DOS to Vista, no Win Explorer problems. Win7? Problems!! I cannot set my VIEW on individual folders. What is going on?
Tried reset all folders and started over. Nada.
This is quite irritating. I like most folders on details, but pictures, videos, and other folders need to be LARGE ICONS.
This should not be a hard thing. What obvious item am I overlooking?
** Win 7 Home Prem. on new i7 Dell (with no Dell help - Thank you Michael Dell - can I have a few minutes of your time to explain why I never bought Dell before and will never buy Dell again?)

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