Visual Studio Settings Help

OK, so I was recently forced to upgrade to visual studio 7 (yuck) and i hate the way it does things. One of my biggest problems is its absolutely stupid default project settings, and im wondering HOW to change them. When i double click a random .cpp file it opens up, when you hit build, it claims there is no project, as it did in 6.0, however its default project settings are terrible.

Any help could be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

right click on the project in solution explorer and select properties.

That only lists the individual projects settings, NOT the DEFAULT TEMPLATE that the project was GENERATED from. My goal here is to make it so i DONT have to go in and manually set the settings 30 times a day.

oh ok, I misunderstood, sorry I don't know how to change that. But let me know if you find it please!