Re: possible to change the Windows Explorer window to "List view" or "Detailed" or "Large Icons"?

There used to be a way to do this and PPro used in the the setup tab "Force explorer to xxx view" setting.  But that does not seem to work in Win 10 and I have not tried to fix as I always use details view and so I just use file explorer options to set that as the view for all folders and their subfolders. 

 It's no real trouble to review your questions. and it is good to know you are very familiar with scripting.  Maybe if you would have included the contents of this post with sophisticated sendmessage approach in your original I would have been able to provide a better response to your original first post on this topic, knowing the type of solution you were looking for.  
 

 Ore place to search for sendmessage or other non-keys would likely be the autohotkey forum.  Note that the com plugin might be able to access things like the shellfolder object, if that happens to be needed (I've seen it used to read the setting) in a autohotkey post.
 

   https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=28304 https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=28304
 

 FWIW, the keys solution works at least in my limited testing on win10 64.  This does details mode
  keys {alt}{alt}vl{home}{right}{right}{down}{enter}
 

 

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