Changing the Windows Explorer View to 'List' via Registry Change

[MikeY007]

I am having Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 2003 AD domain running in Windows 2000 mode. I have written a script that changes the windows explorer view to list. It usually works by writing values to the 'Streams' key in HKCU and seems to work fine when I run this as an administrator. The standard users dont have access to the tools > Options in Windows Explorer, disable via group policy. But when I login as a non-administrator, the view is still 'icons'. I have written a second script to interrogate the registry to verify that the changes that I made had been written successfully - they had. Below is the script details:

;@OSVersion
;Returns one of the following: "WIN_2003", "WIN_XP", "WIN_2000", "WIN_NT4",
"WIN_ME", "WIN_98", "WIN_95"

If @OSVersion = "WIN_2003" OR "WIN_XP" The
RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams",
"Settings", "REG_BINARY",
"08000000040000000100000000777e137335cf11ae6908002b2e1262040000000200000043000000"
RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults",
"{F3364BA0-65B9-11CE-A9BA-00AA004AE837}", "REG_BINARY",
"1c0000000400000000000000000090000000000001000000fffffffff0f0f0f014000300900000000000000030000000fdd fdffd0f0004002000100028003c0000000000010000000200000003000000f50060007800780000000000010000000200000 003000000ffffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
RegDelete("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags")
Endif

If @OSVersion = "WIN_2000" The
RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams",
"Settings", "REG_BINARY",
"09000000040000000000000000777e137335cf11ae6908002b2e12620300000001000000"
RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults",
"{F3364BA0-65B9-11CE-A9BA-00AA004AE837}", "REG_BINARY",
"1c000000040000000000000000006c000000000001000000fffffffff0f0f0f0140003006c0000000000000030000000fdd fdffd0e000400200010002800000000000000010000000200000003000000780060007800780000000000010000000200000 003000000ffffffff")
Endif

[PeterAGASSI]

I dont understand why do you want to do this? The setting of Windows Explorer view can be done with a click-drag click on the View icond. If you want then as the view throughout, it can be propagated through Folder Options.

[MikeY007]

I want to implement this but users dont have access to Tools > Options > Folder Options in Windows Explorer. It has been removed through Group Policy and I cannot change that. The yser environment has been locked down so I want another way of achieving what could be done simply through the 'Folder Options'. Thanks

[Gusgr8]

Dont you know that Folder View Settings are saved in the below locations:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU

Can you try to log in as Admin and then Reset all folders and set your List View, then Apply to all folders and then copy the registry settings from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\ and implement into your script?

[unidentified]

Even I was having the same issue but now I have solved it. You have to go to the below location and then delete all the entries except "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000091

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

After that you can close the registry, modify folder's view and then apply to all folders. Just check it out, it will work.