"Apply to Folders" greyed out

[StuartR]

I usually set the folder view in Windows Explorer to "List", but I frequently find that it has changed to "Details". I can change it back to list again on an individual folder, but the option to apply this view to all folders then appears to be disabled.

Apply to Folders.png

Sometimes I can then open Windows Explorer again, usually at a different folder, and the option is available again.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[stuck]

Wot Hans said.

Ken

[StuartR]

Thank you Ken, that's about as helpful as a chocolate teapot

[HansV]

Could you have tried it in a Libraries folder? "Apply to Folders" isn't available there.

[Leif]

Does Apply Folder View to All Folders of Same Type in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials shed any light?

If you have This PC or a library open, Apply to Folders will be grayed out

[StuartR]

I shall check for that next time it happens.

[stuck]

Thank you Ken, that's about as helpful as a chocolate teapot

Sorry, couldn't resist it.

Ken

[StuartR]

Next time I'm in Yorkshire we should go out for tea somewhere

[Leif]

Earl Greyed-out tea?

[stuck]

Next time I'm in Yorkshire we should go out for tea somewhere

OK but I don't know of any local tea rooms that do chocolate teapots.

Ken

[Rudi]

Yorkshire pudding

[StuartR]

This just happened to me again. A folder had changed to Details view. I set it to List view and then found that the option to apply to all folders was greyed out.

A little experimentation shows that if I navigate to this folder via a library link then I can't apply the setting to all folders. If I navigate to the exact same folder using a normal link then everything works as I want.

That is strange.

[HansV]

See the replies by me and Leif higher up. This is a known "feature".

[StuartR]

I thought you meant that it applied to the Library folder. This was a folder nested much lower down the hierarchy. And it's even more odd that I could make the change I wanted by navigating to the same folder via a disk drive path.

[Argus]

I've noticed since a long time (at least since Windows 7 came) that my setup of folder views (just some minor changes) wasn't "carried over" when accessed via the library route; i.e. if comparing access via Computer on the Start menu (or Winkey+E) with the default link to Explorer on the Taskbar.