I have a question about Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?:

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Go to Start, Settings, click on folder options.click view tab. You will find a box to remember folder view settings, put a check mark in it, click apply, click ok! Dick (phantom) Benke


On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 6:28 am, Lou Wallis wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?:

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...and that question is...?


On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 6:28 am, Lou Wallis wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?:

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I've always had the checkmark in that box, and my system often doesn't remember either; 
my folders have the same problem!






On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 6:53 am, Dick Benke wrote:
>Go to Start, Settings, click on folder options.click view tab. You will find a box 
>to remember folder view settings, put a check mark in it, click apply, click ok!
>Dick (phantom) Benke>

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I've gone through the same paces,,,The box was already checked, so I unchecked it , and checked it again ( who knows ,stranger things have happened) but to no avail,still have my desk top all scattered. Guess I'll go to the "Bug list" and try to find out what's up,,,I've had other prob's with this 6.0 and have really been inconvenienced while on line. Like,locking up while right in the middle of research and having to BOOT off!


On Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 2:32 am, Mike wrote:

>I've always had the checkmark in that box, and my system often doesn't remember 
either; 
>my folders have the same problem!
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I too have checked that box MANY times. XP still will not remember folder settings. Seems really stupid to me. James


On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 6:28 am, Lou Wallis wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?:

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Same very frustrating problem here! Anyone can suggest something? Maybe Cache Memory not high enough?

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I may have figured this one out (probably not though). I think you want the checkbox for "remember folder settings" UNCHECKED, then set up the folder the way you want, then click the "make all folders like current folder"....then yes....then OK. otherwise Billgates spawn 98 gets its tiny monopolizing mind confused, and every folder that you haven't recently opened will show those DUMB GIANT ICOMS, etc etc I'm probably wrong, but seems to be working on win98se Let me


On Saturday, April 20, 2002 at 4:14 am, Calvin wrote:
>I've gone through the same paces,,,The box was already checked, so I unchecked it
>, and checked it again ( who knows ,stranger things have happened)
>but to no avail,still have my desk top all scattered.
>Guess I'll go to the "Bug list" and try to find out what's
>up,,,I've had other prob's with this 6.0 and have really been inconvenienced while
>on line. Like,locking up while right in the middle of research and having to BOOT
>off!
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This problem has existed since the introduction of Windows 95. The simple answer is that there is no solution and Windows, which unfortunatley we all have to use most of the time, is crap with a capital C!


On Friday, March 21, 2003 at 7:26 pm, dufus wrote:
>I may have figured this one out (probably not though). I think you want the checkbox
>for "remember folder settings" UNCHECKED, then set up the folder the way you want,
>then click the "make all folders like current folder"....then yes....then OK.
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>otherwise Billgates spawn 98 gets its tiny monopolizing mind confused, and every
>folder that you haven't recently opened will show those DUMB GIANT ICOMS, etc etc
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>I'm probably wrong, but seems to be working on win98se
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>Let me
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The real answer

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I've tried this fix on other computers with success, but it simply doesn't work on mine - running Windows 98. Any suggestions, other than Linux?


On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 1:08 pm, finally wrote:
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The real answer

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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. This is a sort of bug. The fix is to reset that registry key :- viz --- save below to afile.reg and double click it -- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSaveSettings"=hex:00,00,00,00


On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 5:17 pm, David Gollogly wrote:
>I've tried this fix on other computers with success, but it simply doesn't work on
>mine - running Windows 98.
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>Any suggestions, other than Linux?
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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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Just wanted to add a quick note here - to anyone using CCleaner. Uncheck the box in the left pane to delete 'Other Explorer MRUs'. Windows won't remember folder settings if you erase them every day, like I was doing. And, the real fix is to set the BagMRU Size in the registry (google it).

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