Windows – Configure default folder view for storage connected via MTP

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I'm connecting a Samsung GS4 phone to Windows 7 using USB. By default the SGS4 uses MTP for the USB connection. Windows apparently thinks any device using MTP is a media player and only contains media files.

I want the Explorer Window to use the normal Windows Explorer details view, but instead I get columns for "Artist", "Track", etc, and I do not get the columns that I want (like file dates). I can manually reconfigure the columns, but that gets pretty tedious repeating for every folder in a phone's file system.

Is there a way to globally disable the "media type" view and columns, and always have Windows Explorer use the normal file column headings?

Best Answer

Run the following in a .REG file and you will get detailed view for all your MTP drives and more.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified" 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell\{5C4F28B5-F869-4E84-8E60-F11DB97C5CC7}]
"LogicalViewMode"=dword:00000001
"Mode"=dword:00000001
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