I've been using your annoyances books (win 95 & 98) as well as O'reilley's disc related to your work. Just got a used dell inspiron 8000 which came with, you guessed it, win2000 so when some stuff did not work as msft said it should, I came here and sure enough, on the annoyances tab on your site, my answer was but seconds away. THANKS> herbridg

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Open current folder you are in and change your settings to whatever you want, ie: 
view details, etc.
Once your views are set - - 
Click on Tools, Folder Options.
Goto and select View Tab.
Click on Like Current Folder.








On Saturday, October 20, 2001 at 11:09 am, herbridg wrote:
>I've been using your annoyances books (win 95 & 98) as well as O'reilley's disc 
related 
>to your work.  Just got a used dell inspiron 8000 which came with, you guessed it, 
>win2000 so when some stuff did not work as msft said it should, I came here and 
sure 
>enough, on the annoyances tab on your site, my answer was but seconds away.
>
>THANKS>   herbridg
>
>

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Herbidg is indeed a lucky person. This has never repeat never in five years worked for me on win 98se. They all behave for that log on session, but as soon as I reboot there they are ! all crazy again. In fact I've given up on it. On my laptop which runs XP this function works ok. So what the hell I do most of my stuff on the laptop. BUT as a matter of interest I would like to know if anyone has the answer.


On Saturday, October 20, 2001 at 11:09 am, herbridg wrote:
>I've been using your annoyances books (win 95 & 98) as well as O'reilley's disc related
>to your work. Just got a used dell inspiron 8000 which came with, you guessed it,
>win2000 so when some stuff did not work as msft said it should, I came here and sure
>enough, on the annoyances tab on your site, my answer was but seconds away.
>
>THANKS> herbridg
>
>

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As I found from another posting, a quirk of W2K is its short memory span for the way individual folders are configured. There is a circular list that holds the folder settings, once set (through the control panel as mentioned). The size of the list is limited to approximately 400 folders. This limit can be changed with a Registry setting. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell. Add a new REG_DWORD value named BagMRU Size. 5,000 was the suggested size in the article I read. Reboot to make this change take effect. I hope this helps.


On Friday, October 24, 2003 at 9:27 am, Mustafa@GSA wrote:
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>Open current folder you are in and change your settings to whatever you want, ie:
>view details, etc.
>Once your views are set - -
>Click on Tools, Folder Options.
>Goto and select View Tab.
>Click on Like Current Folder.
>
>
>
>

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OK, whatever I do 1)W2K pro running Asus/NVidia drivers forgets size and placement of folders and (on another machine) Win XP Pro defaults to TILE and a single size of window, despite being told to remember 9999 window settings. Moving a folder automatically reverts it to that cursed Tile format. Whata I Do?????

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