# Saving Settings & Profiles

## General Settings

When you close down &konqueror; your current View menu settings (such as the View Mode, Use index.html and Show Hidden Files items) are not automatically saved as the default options; however, you can have &konqueror; remember these settings by selecting Settings Save View Profile As... and the current setting will become the default option to be used the next time &konqueror; is started.

But you can also specify different View menu settings for an individual folder. To do this select View Adjust View Properties..., change the View settings in the dialog to whatever you want. Then apply the view properties to the Current folder. Doing this creates a `.directory` file in that folder to hold the folder View settings. Use this dialog again to remove the folder specific settings (or just delete the `.directory` file).

One nice use of this feature is if you have a folder full of pictures. You can set that particular folder to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing the View Mode Icons and Preview from the View menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other folders.

## View Profiles

&konqueror; can save a whole set of options as a View Profile. Some view profiles are part of the standard &konqueror; installation, such as `Web Browsing`, `File Management`, `KDE Development`, `Midnight Commander` and `Tabbed Browsing`; but you can add your own, too.

To modify a view profile (say, the `Web Browsing` profile), load the profile with Settings Load View Profile Web Browsing , and change the &konqueror; settings to whatever you want. Now select Settings Save View Profile As... . In the dialog which appears, you can change the name of the profile, which will create a new profile with that name, or you can leave the name as it is to modify the current profile. If you select Save URLs in profile, the current &URL; will be loaded when you load that view profile. This functions in a similar way to the Home Page in many web browsers. If you want &konqueror; to start up with an empty window enter `about:blank` into the location bar before saving the profile.

You can create a desktop icon to start &konqueror; with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by clicking with the &RMB; onto the &konqueror; entry in the application launcher menu. Then select Add to Desktop in the context menu. Open the settings dialog of the new icon on your desktop by clicking on the Tools icon. Change Command in the Application tab page to ``kfmclient` `openProfile `MyNewProfile```, `MyNewProfile` being what you called the new profile. Then change the name to something like `MyNewProfile` .