Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' Saturday, November 2, 2002 at 3:20 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by surferXPro (4 messages posted) Thanks SOOOO!!!! much! 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) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window Positions' (alex: Fri, Apr 12, 2002, 3:37 am) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window Positions' (Robert: Fri, Apr 12, 2002, 3:30 pm) Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Robert Law: Sat, May 11, 2002, 1:57 am) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Tom: Sun, May 26, 2002, 7:14 am) Re to Oomingmak: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Robert Law: Mon, May 27, 2002, 2:17 am) re: Re to Oomingmak: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Rick Juggernaut: Sat, Jun 29, 2002, 8:06 am) re: Re to Oomingmak: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Ander: Wed, Jul 10, 2002, 4:00 pm) re: Re to Oomingmak: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Darrell: Mon, Jul 15, 2002, 8:09 am) This was the solution (for me) (Jost Wolf: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 3:56 am) re: This was the solution (for me) (John Butler: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 8:24 am) re: This was the solution (for me) (Jost Wolf: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 12:41 pm) re: This was the solution (for me) (John Butler: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 1:04 pm) re: This was the solution (for me) (jaxxsterz: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 12:48 am) re: This was the solution (for me) (Arache: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 4:04 am) HOW to FORCE a custom default? (aoz: Sat, Aug 9, 2003, 8:50 pm) re: HOW to FORCE a custom default? (nick: Mon, Aug 18, 2003, 6:41 am) re: This was the solution (for me) (scott: Sun, Feb 15, 2004, 6:50 pm) re: This was the solution (for me) (Giga: Fri, Jun 25, 2004, 12:46 am) re: This was the solution (for me) (WhiteNinja2: Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 8:21 am) re: This was the solution (for me) (monkey: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 8:32 pm) re: This was the solution (for me) (jmagness: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 12:11 pm) re: This was the solution (for me) (dg: Fri, Jun 2, 2006, 9:28 pm) XP "save" or "Save as" ICONS? (Ward Christensen: Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 10:25 am) re: XP "save" or "Save as" ICONS? (Wm Williams: Sat, Feb 10, 2007, 7:02 am) Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (surferXPro: Sat, Nov 2, 2002, 3:20 am) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Chuck Kutschenreuter: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 3:49 pm) I'm glad to have a solution for autosizing windows. (octanq: Mon, Feb 14, 2005, 12:22 pm) re: I'm glad to have a solution for autosizing windows. (Albert van Osch: Wed, Mar 8, 2006, 5:40 am) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Patrick: Sat, Apr 12, 2003, 11:58 am) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Dennis: Sun, Oct 19, 2003, 10:18 pm) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window Positions' (surferXPro: Sat, Nov 2, 2002, 1:38 am) re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window Positions' (MARK GILES: Sun, Dec 21, 2003, 1:48 pm) F5 doesn't save Notepad postions.. 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