Okay; this has been driving me nuts, and I hope this is the right place to ask this.

I'm on Windows 7. I would like to know how you can set as a 'default' the look of a window or its panes, meaning, for example, whether a window displays the files/folders as lists, icons, etc.

Every time I start windows and go to a folder, the display is always thumnails, or icons, etc; never a list, which is what I like. I have to manually go up in the right hand corner, choose list, and then it's fine. But when I start windows again the next time, it's the old display.

Can anyone tell me how to 'set' the kind of display that I want so I don't have to do this, or is windows just configured to have a certain kind of display on startup? If so it's really annoying.

Hope I explained it well enough to understand.