Something similar happen to me after installing a program. I found this on Microsoft's 
news help site. It worked for me, but I can't guarantee it:

Subject: Re: Window sizes and settings do not stay
From: dev@null.invalid
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Sergio wrote:
I re-sized My Documents to a size that I like. The setting stays for a few days or 
less, and then it goes back to being big, maybe 800 x 600. This happens to My Network 
Places, Recycle Bin, etc. Plus, if I change the view settings in My Music, which 
is inside My Documents, to Details and then I delete some tabs so that it only shows 
Size, Duration, and Bitrate, those settings get forgotten in a few days as well. 
I am running XP Pro and everything works awesome except this, which is really bothering 
me. I am wondering if anyone is experiencing this problem? I tried the Folder Options 
settings and have all the folders have the same setting option, but to no avail.


You can try this…..

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU] 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]

Delete those registry keys and restart windows.

Be sure that you understand how to restore Windows, in the unlikely case that the 
registry becomes corrupt.






On Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 4:00 pm, Andy Fielding wrote:
>You're entirely right about XP forgetting window settings.
>
>I use List view for all the windows on my system; I can't stand big, goofy icons. 
>However, not only does XP "forget" many of my window sizes and positions, certain 
>windows keep reverting to Large Icons view. Ack! You'd think MS could've learned 
>how to do something so basic by now---or at least provided a tool to fix it when 
>it went wrong.
>
>I'm not quite ready to make the leap from Window to Macintosh, as you are. They're 
>nice computers, but a lot more dough than I want to spend. And unfortunately, because 
>Mac-users comprise only 7% of the PC market, the software available for them is 
severely 
>limited. Good luck, though!
>
>Cheers,  Andy
>

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