Changing 'View Options' defaults

Is there any way to change the options selected by default when a CD is read in or when a playlist is clicked. I find that I virtually always have to go to the 'View Options' command to enable the 'Composer' field. How can I make this field be displayed automatically?
Eric
PS I posted this question already but in the wrong forum -sorry! Is there any way to move a question from one forum to another, if you post it wrong?

What we were referring to is what happens when you create a new folder and bring up View Options: at the top the default that is automatically checked is All Windows. If you unthinkingly set various view options for that folder, without checking the This Window Only, then those options will be applied to all new folders, and all folders that do not already have settings of their own. However, folders that you have at some point selected and checked the This Window option, then set custom view options for it, will be unaffected.
I suspect the problem that you are running into is that folders you have previously worked with will not be changed. Try this:
1. Create a new folder, bring up View Options, leave the All Windows checked
2. Run through List view and Icon view and make some settings
3. Leave the View options window open and then start opening some folders that you are unlikely to have ever opened before
4. Those that you haven't worked with should show the All Windows box checked, and display your new settings when you change to the various views
5. Windows you have set before will have the This Window Only box checked, and display whatever options you previously set for them
While this can all be confusing, and frustrating, it works for people who use different options in different folders for different purposes. If you could inadvertantly wipe out all the choices you had made for special purposes with one forgetful moment people would be even more distraught than they are now.
To accomplish what you want leave the settings you want check for All in a new folder. Every time you open a folder that isn't that way, and it has This Window checked, you'll need to change it to your preference. Eventually all the folders you use will be what you want, and all new folders will inherit the All Window settings you have chosen.
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