Question : How to set Windows Explorer View settings always to 'Details'?

How to set Windows Explorer 'View Options' ALWAYS to 'Details' instead of the Explorer default setting in XP Home? And how can I set the default 'My Documents' or 'My Pictures' to a directory of my choice when doing 'Save As..'?

Answer : How to set Windows Explorer View settings always to 'Details'?

This link kind of explains what your up against
My Documents has its own dll library file that reloads registry settings for all it's wonderful features, so killing that might help allow you to cutomize it.  Also enabling hidden files in folder options and then deleting thumbs.db and desktop.ini, as well as deleting the BagMRU and Bags keys under this key will remove the current customizations for all folders which will then be restarted after boot.  I've never figured out all the places ms uses to make sure my documents does what it wants instead of what you want, so use info at own risk.
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/41875/41875.html

 The mess below is the guts of the mydocs.dll registry entries inside the dll file incase that will give you some clues as to where the registry entries that affect its configuration are being created.
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam













[Version]
Signature="$CHICAGO$"
[RegDll]
AddReg=DllGoo
DelReg=DllCleanup
RequiredEngine=SETUPAPI,%ERR_NOSETUPAPI%
[UnregDll]
DelReg=DllGoo
RequiredEngine=SETUPAPI,%ERR_NOSETUPAPI%
[DllCleanup]
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocuments%\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\%CLSID_MyDocuments%"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocuments%\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\%CLSID_MyDocuments%"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocuments%\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\%CLSID_MyDocsProp%"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocuments%\shellex\IconHandler\%CLSID_MyDocuments%"
HKCR,".mydocs\ShellNew"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocuments%\ShellFolder",HideAsDelete
HKLM,"%SMWCEA%\Folder\MyDocsOnDesktop"
[DllGoo]
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%,,,"MyDocs Drop Target"
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%,NeverShowExt
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%,NoOpen,,%DESC_NoOpen%
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%\InProcServer32,,%REGEXSZ%,%_SYS_MOD_PATH%
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%\InProcServer32,ThreadingModel,,Apartment
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%\DefaultIcon,,%REGEXSZ%,%_SYS_MOD_PATH%
HKCR,CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%\shellex\DropHandler,,,%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%
HKCR,.mydocs,,,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsProp%",,,"MyDocs menu and properties"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsProp%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,%_SYS_MOD_PATH%
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsProp%\InProcServer32",ThreadingModel,,Apartment
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocuments%\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\%CLSID_MyDocsProp%"
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsCopyHook%\InProcServer32",,%REGEXSZ%,%_SYS_MOD_PATH%
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsCopyHook%\InProcServer32",ThreadingModel,,Apartment
HKCR,"CLSID\%CLSID_MyDocsCopyHook%\InProcServer32",LoadWithoutCOM
HKCR,"Directory\ShellEx\CopyHookHandlers\MyDocuments",,,"%CLSID_MyDocsCopyHook%"
HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved","%CLSID_MyDocsCopyHook%",,"MyDocs Copy Hook"
HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved","%CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget%",,"MyDocs Drop Target"
HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved","%CLSID_MyDocsProp%",,"MyDocs Properties"
[Strings]
REGDW=0x00010001
REGEXSZ=0x00020000
CLSID_MyDocuments="{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"
CLSID_MyDocsDropTarget="{ECF03A32-103D-11d2-854D-006008059367}"
CLSID_MyDocsCopyHook="{ECF03A33-103D-11d2-854D-006008059367}"
CLSID_MyDocsProp="{4a7ded0a-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}"
MYDOCUMENTS="My Documents"
SMWCEA="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
DESC_NoOpen=Drag Files onto this icon to store them in My Documents
ERR_NOSETUPAPI="Can not register MYDOCS.DLL because SETUPAPI.DLL is missing."