Windows Live Writer blogs are a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with your readers. However, sometimes the default view in the blog is not what you want it to be. To change the default view in Windows Live Writer blogs, follow these steps:
- Open Windows Live Writer and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen. This will open a new window with a list of options.
- In the left column, select View > Default View > Blogs. This will change the default view to One Column with Thumbnails.
- Click on One Column with Thumbnails to return to the default view in Windows Live Writer blogs.
Here’s how to delete the cached blog theme so that Windows Live Writer will use the default non-themed view, which maximizes the amount of space you have to write.
Downloaded Theme Gone Wrong
Here’s an example of a blog theme that just didn’t work right—look at all that space over there on the left side of the screen. Awful!
The Default Non-Themed View
This is the default view without a blog theme applied, and it maximizes the amount of space that you have to write. Much better.
How to Delete a Cached Blog Theme
To get rid of the theme files and use the default view instead, you can open up Windows Explorer and paste in the following to the location bar:
This will show a list of the blogs that you’ve got setup in Windows Live Writer, but sadly they are all in GUID folders so you’ll have to explore to figure out which one is which—for my purposes, I had just added the last one, so I chose the folder with the latest date.
Once you get into the folder, you can see all of the cached files, and if you open some of the index.htm files in a browser, you’ll be able to figure out which one is which.
Simply delete all the files in this folder—you might want to make a backup first, of course—and then close Windows Live Writer and open it up again. You’ll see the default view.
This tip probably won’t help that many people, but it’s something that I’ve used numerous times in the last year and figured I would share.
