Need to enforce "Tiles" view for Windows File Explorer using Registry keys for Group Policy

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AsadAlrafidain

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Hello everyone...
There has been an annoying bug in file explorer in windows 11 23h2 (and maybe even 22h2 I can't remember) where every now and then the view changes automatically to "details" and I have to revert to "tiles" manually.
Is there a group policy setting (and a corresponding registry key for it) to enforce tiles view so that it can't be overridden by windows and the the registry key to be incorporated in an NTLite preset ?
 
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To my knowledge, there is no way to lock a specific folder's view from changing.

There are tools or reg files for setting the default Explorer view for different folder classes, but they stop working after you modify a folder's view. Modified views are added to the registry's ShellBags keys, but as randomly numbered GUID's. I don't know of any tool which can pick a named folder out of ShellBags and remove the one entry.

Any GPO policy, if it existed, would probably apply to the entire desktop or all folders.
 
garlin said:
To my knowledge, there is no way to lock a specific folder's view from changing.

There are tools or reg files for setting the default Explorer view for different folder classes, but they stop working after you modify a folder's view. Modified views are added to the registry's ShellBags keys, but as randomly numbered GUID's. I don't know of any tool which can pick a named folder out of ShellBags and remove the one entry.

Any GPO policy, if it existed, would probably apply to the entire desktop or all folders.
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I disable shellbags in NTLite settings... might that be what is causing the bug?
 
Disabling ShellBags means no folder views are saved. They will stay exactly as the default settings after installation.
 
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