If you are asking how to make folder windows open in a given position, with a given size and detail, etc., then select Tools - FolderOptions and choose the "View" tab at the top.
Scroll the window down until you see a box to check that says "Remember each folder's view settings" and put a checkmark in it. You can then also click the button "Apply to All Folders" if this is what you want to happen. (The "Reset All Folders" button will take away anything you have done and set folders back to XP defaults, I believe, so if the problem is that you want the ORIGINAL folder configuration back or the wrong folder is being opened, then click this button FIRST.)
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Remembering folder settings is most useful if you have each folder open in a new window, but you may not want to do that. (I do, but I have some folders as lists, others with dates and/or file sizes, with each window sized to fit its contents and each located at the top right of my screen so I can close everything quickly with repeated clicks to the same X spot). Windows remembers the settings for only about 500 windows. If you want more than that there is a tweak that sets a registry key so it will remember 8000 (if anyone is interested, ask).
You can drag the "Address" of any folder to the desktop, or some other folder, or Quicklaunch bar to make a shortcut to that particular folder. You can drag the address of a website to anywhere also to make a shortcut to that website. You have to grab the icon in the leftmost part of the address bar, not the words in the address.
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P.S. Stuff:
You can also make a folder (give this folder a very short name) with whatever you want in it - shortcuts to other random folders, website links, files, etc., from anywhere on your disk and then put a link to that folder on the taskbar as a menu so that when you click it, it will give you a list of whatever is in that folder quickly to choose from. (This will be the same kind of button/list you would get if you right-clicked on the Quicklaunch bar, selected "Toolbars", and then selected/checked the "Desktop" toolbar - you can try that one to see how it would work - you can always reclick it to uncheck it.)
To create a "quicklist" folder like this, right-click on the Quicklaunch, choose "Toolbars" go down and click "New Toolbar..." and then navigate that window to the place where your "quicklist" folder is and select it. It will appear in your toolbar with an arrow to click to popup the list. You can drag it all the way to the right so that nothing but the title and the arrows appear. It's good to get in the habit of keeping your quicklaunch bar "locked" unless you want to change something in it. (I have one of these button/lists named "Sites" with my most used websites, and one named "Write" for shortcuts to my word processing apps, etc., and one named "Games" and one named "C" for shortcuts to folders I access a lot on my C drive, suchs as Templates, Start Menu, Desktop, etc.).
I have my quicklaunch bar set at double height, with the top row for icons and button/lists and the bottom row for the windows I have open. You can unlock the toolbar, grab the little blue-on-blue dot left edges (each toolbar has its own such "handle") and drag things around to where you want them, then relock the toolbar to keep them that way.
--AnnaSummers
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From: Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Folders question in XP
I use Windows Explore often to access my file and folders. In the past, it used to open to the C drive which is what most of us us all the time. Now it just opens to everything.
Question: What do I do to save the folder's view after I get to where I want so that it opens that way next time I open Windows Explore??
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