How to reset the folder views in Windows XP?, hoping
that this time they will remain in place:
http://www.petri.co.il/reset_folder_views_in_xp.htm
HTH,
Tomas Santos
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in PCBuild, Ian <lindian@xxxxx> wrote:
Re: Win XP Pro will NOT remember folder views
>
> Welcome to the club! I grind my teeth every time I
use
> XP because of =
> this infuriating trait. Hope I can find a solution
> before I get down to =
> the gums and I'm forced to subsist on babyfood.
>
> It's got to be something simple - a registry setting
> obviously. =20
>
> You didn't say exactly where you're up to in your plan
> to control this =
> unruly (and damn expensive) OS. I've got my XP
> Pro\SP-1 to the point =
> where it remembers nearly everything but the fact that
> I want each =
> folder to open at about one-sixth screen size. =20
>
> So it's holding OK with Classic view, no standard
> buttons or address =
> bar, List viewing mode and every new folder with it's
> own window - but =
> every newly opened folder insists on claiming the
whole
> screen. =
> Previously accessed folders SOMETIMES remember their
> pre-programmed =
> reduced sizes but not reliably. And every new opening
> gets the =
> mandatory full screen.
>
> (Bill's either short sighted or just likes to see the
> BIG PICTURE)
>
> Well, I dunno the answer - I thought I had it a while
> back when I =
> discovered that holding down Ctrl while clicking a
> folder at least =
> opened the child in the same size as the parent. But
> it also closes the =
> parent at the same time, which is not the effect I
> want. Backspacing =
> out of the child reveals the parent folder, and the
> child remains on =
> screen also, but it's getting way too complicated for
> busy professionals =
> who have better things to do than keep tinkering with
> their OS.
>
> As I've wailed before, how difficult would it have
been
> for M$ to have =
> designed this better? =20
>
> Ian Porter
> Computer Guys Inc.
> Arrowtown
> New Zealand
> lindian@xxxxx
>
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Michael A. Wosnick=20
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Win XP Pro will NOT remember
> folder views
>
>
> I have a most annoying problem. No matter what I do,
> I just CANNOT get =
> my
> new Win XP Pro to remember the individual views of
> folders. I HAVE =
> clearly
> checked the "Remember each folder's view settings"
> under 'Tools\Folder
> Options\Views\ but it makes ZERO difference.
>
> I am fully able to use the "reset all folders"
button
> and EVERY folder =
> on my
> system will revert to Tile View default. I can also
> set any folder on =
> my
> system to some other setting, such as "Detail View"
> and use the "Apply =
> to
> all folders" button and as advertised it applies
that
> view to EVERY =
> single
> folder on my system. But there is no way I can set
an
> INDIVIDUAL =
> folder's
> view settings differently after either of these
steps.
>
> I have tried changing views, and then closing that
> window while =
> holding down
> the "CTRL" key or the "SHIFT" key (tricks I recall
> reading from time =
> to
> time, but believe me, the settings will NOT stick no
> matter what I do.
>
> Is there some other over-riding default somewhere
> that I don't know =
> about.
>
> I should add that I use XP Pro at work, and have
used
> it at home as =
> well and
> have never encountered such a persistent refusal to
> do what it is =
> supposed
> to do. Sure, from time to time Windows has always
> seemed to "forget" a
> folder's settings and I need to re-do that folder's
> setting, but I =
> have
> never yet found a situation where NO FOLDER can be
> set differently no =
> matter
> what I do.
>
> Any help out there?
>
> Michael
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