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Windows File Explorer has long had a feature whereby it tries to customise folders based on what files are in there. Is there any way to disable this in Windows 10?

Specifically I have a problem that I create a lot of audio-visual files, and this leads Windows to often re-categorise folders as music - so that File explorer in detail mode displays columns like 'artist' and 'album'. I basically NEVER want this, and I therefore seem to be forever manually changing folders back to 'documents' (by right-clicking in File Explorer and selecting 'Customise'). Frustratingly, Windows invariably then re-categorises the folder back to 'music' as soon as I add a couple more .mp3's to the folder, so I have to manually change it back again.

Hence my question: How can I stop Windows doing this? I don't really want to change things on a per-folder basis (because this problem affects a lot of folders) - I would prefer to just change one setting to stop Windows ever auto-customising any folder anywhere on my file system.

Thanks for any help!

Simon R
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    Possible duplicate of [Irritating auto-changing column types in Windows Explorer in case of audio/video files](https://superuser.com/questions/513298/irritating-auto-changing-column-types-in-windows-explorer-in-case-of-audio-video) Especially [this answer](https://superuser.com/a/1265125/62676) is IMHO very helpful. – Robert Nov 10 '19 at 12:07
  • You have verified this works in W10 as the regedit suggested is for W10 @Robert – Moab Nov 10 '19 at 13:15
  • Simon see this page>>>>https://winaero.com/blog/disable-folder-type-discovery-windows-10/ – Moab Nov 10 '19 at 13:18
  • Thanks guys. I've tried the regit solution mentioned in both the other StackExchange question and the winaero link, so will see if that works..... – Simon R Nov 16 '19 at 02:32

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