re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' Monday, May 5, 2003 at 4:41 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by chris (1 messages posted) This is a known problem according to Microsoft, see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330216 and it is very annoying!!!! On Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 9:26 am, Jens Baumann wrote: >On Monday, July 8, 2002 at 10:19 pm, Loretta wrote: >What exactly did your folders do? > >I guess the same the Explorer does for many users - it changes settings by itself. >For example, here on my machine I have a shortcut to Explorer in my quick icons on >the task bar. After I installed Win XP, I put it there. I opened up Explorer via >it, selected the settings I prefer (status bar, Detail, unchecked all those silly >"do not show file extension", "do not show system files" etc. crap) and chose "apply >to all folders". Worked as designed, from then on whenever I opened Explorer, it >had the settings I wanted. But for some silly reason, every now and then I get the >"symbols" view when opening up Explorer, or the status bar suddenly is not shown >anymore. I really cannot figure out WHY Win XP does that, it just does. I *never* >change the settings myself, Windows does it on its own. > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Jens Baumann: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 9:26 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (jesus malverdes: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 9:24 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Loretta: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 10:19 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Jens Baumann: Tue, Jul 9, 2002, 9:26 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Keetone: Tue, Jul 9, 2002, 2:42 pm) folders won't open in same window (sunking: Fri, Jul 12, 2002, 2:35 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Rashpal: Sun, Dec 8, 2002, 8:04 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Xakepa[BG]: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:56 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Shayne: Tue, Apr 15, 2003, 9:25 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Wei-Yen: Mon, Aug 18, 2003, 11:24 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Jon Stone: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 7:16 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Jose: Sun, Dec 29, 2002, 2:26 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Tom: Sat, Feb 1, 2003, 6:35 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Zacs: Fri, Mar 21, 2003, 11:05 am) re: folders won't open in same window (StumpY: Sat, Jul 26, 2003, 1:10 am) re: folders won't open in same window (jack: Sat, Mar 26, 2005, 2:22 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (mobeen: Sun, Oct 31, 2004, 12:15 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (some guy: Tue, Nov 30, 2004, 3:02 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Miki: Tue, Jun 14, 2005, 9:19 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Miki: Tue, Jun 14, 2005, 9:44 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Jon Stone: Sat, Sep 27, 2003, 10:58 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Brett: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 9:53 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Robert: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 7:43 am) re: folders won't open in same window (MRoget: Fri, Sep 3, 2004, 9:44 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Mr. B: Sun, Feb 29, 2004, 8:29 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Theo Reticle: Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 5:28 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (HP Computer: Sat, Jun 4, 2005, 4:14 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (NimbleHuman: Wed, Sep 14, 2005, 3:46 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (Jess: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 8:19 pm) re: folders won't open in same window (MartinM: Wed, Oct 24, 2007, 3:14 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Jess: Wed, Oct 24, 2007, 3:18 am) re: folders won't open in same window (Sarah: Wed, Apr 2, 2008, 7:13 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (DSDA: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 7:02 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (chris: Mon, May 5, 2003, 4:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum