Why is apply to folders greyed out

However, the Apply to Folders button and Reset Folders button are both greyed out. Please advise how to view these buttons and edit the settings for folder views. Welcome to the Microsoft Answers Community! From the instructions you are following it sounds like you are using Windows 7.

Both buttons should be grayed out when inside a folder contained in a Library by design. You can locate the folders that are contained in your Library in your User Profile, if you would rather use that. Then you can open Documents, Picture, etc. You can create a shortcut to the desktop for these folders as well by right clicking the folder and selecting Create Shortcut.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Regards, Rudi If your absence does not affect them, your presence didn't matter. 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. This is a known "feature". This was a folder nested much lower down the hierarchy. Apply Folder View settings to all folders Automatically? Windows 10 ; Folder view I have set to view dimensions of images for easy reference.

I want all windows I open to display this information also. I tried the Apply to All folders , button, in View Options menu Apply folder columns to all subfolders and a backup : I'd like to have my music albums and movies in folders with columns for every folder, like folders with sub-sub-sub folders if you know what I mean.

I need to apply manually these columns for each folder I want to have it the way I want, and then if something Controlled folder access is greyed out : In the new Fall update there is a controlled folder access option. Which I would much like to use. I think it is meant to be on by default, for at least basic protection..

Mine is both off and greyed out so that I can not turn it on. I've read a couple of random internet Libraries View set to a folder will not apply to all it's sub folders : So, as suggested by Brink, I started a new thread for this issue. Brink you stated ''Just to note, that folders in a library share the same folder view as it was when last closed. This isn't the same as the folders in "This PC".