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"This has been covered many times before but I'll summarize here as well. \nIn Windows XP, we do not have an official way to set and then remember the view type that is used. We do have an unofficial way -- a hack, really -- to set the view type used (but not to retrieve it afterwards). We found that most people, including myself, wanted to use the thumbnail view from Paint.NET, but that Windows was always defaulting to something like Details view. So, we force the dialog to use Thumbnail view. This works great for most (in fact, almost all) situations, but like you've detailed there are a few cases where this does not work satisfactorally. \nIn Windows Vista, we use the new programming API's for the open/save dialogs. These do remember the view types used and are smarter about applying the thumbnail view when navigating to a folder with images. The performance is also much better, as the thumbnail work is done either in background threads or out-of-process. "
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