Removing those 2 keys (which regenerate, BTW) completely fixed my only XP annoyance that I have been screwing with trying to fix for 5 months!

Now my XP is 100% perfect!
--
D.
San Diego


On Monday, July 15, 2002 at 8:09 am, Darrell wrote:

>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.
>
>






Written in response to:
re: Re to Oomingmak: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Darrell: Monday, July 15, 2002 at 8:09 am)


Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Chuck Kutschenreuter: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 3:49 pm)

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