re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?'
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 7:19 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Howard Lang
(1 messages posted)
It's never too late to add useful information.
I run Windows 98SE on my old desktop (circa 1995). I am always amazed
at what this machine (which was supposed to "blow up" on Jan 1, 2000 -
computer salesman's words) can do.
I tried all the "fixes" listed above, plus many others suggested
elsewhere. Nothing worked. The folders still opened, cascaded, on my
desktop.
After reading humpty's post, I was ready to edit my registry. First,
I booted to a command prompt, backed up my existing registry, and
started Windows.
I looked at my registry, and compared it with that of a machine which
remembers folder positions and settings. I found there were two strings
present on my computer which were not among the strings in the registry
of the "good" computer. They were the "NoSaveSettings" and the
"NoActiveDesktop."
Here is what I did which fixed the problem:
1. I read the information at http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/registry/
2. I went back to my "bad" computer, and exported
the registry key, [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer].
3. I saved the exported registry key as nosavold.reg.
4. I edited nosavold.reg (removed the two strings),
and saved that as nosavnew.reg.
5. I merged nosavnew.reg into my registry.
Voila! I had my folder positions and other characteristics back again.
Now, when I open a folder, the position and view settings are remembered.
When I go to the View>FolderOptions>View checkbox area, I see that the
"remember each folder's view settings" is unchecked, and I'm going to
leave it that way!
The previously deleted strings have been re-built by Windows, with
values 00,00,00,00. The strings in that key are in a different order,
but otherwise they are the same.
In short, unchecking the box didn't work. Holding down control while
closing a folder didn't work, editing the "NoSaveSettings" value
so it read 00,00,00,00 didn't work. The only thing that worked was to
uncheck the box, then delete the "NoSaveSettings" string and have it
re-built by windows.
On Saturday, May 1, 2004 at 2:43 pm, humpty wrote:
>It's a bit late (1 year) but for those still using win98,..
>The whole point of that option is to remember EACH folder's setting, as opposed
to
>just one setting for all folders.
>Sometimes the option doesn't work because somehow
>the registry setting below doesn't let each folder change
>it's own setting.
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>This is a sort of bug.
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>The fix is to reset that registry key :- viz
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>--- save below to afile.reg and double click it --
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>REGEDIT4
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>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
>"NoSaveSettings"=hex:00,00,00,00
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