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re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions'
Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 10:18 pm
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Posted by Dennis (10 messages posted)


Actually, setting this value to 00000000 doesn't acomplish anything. Setting it to 00000001 however will lock your settings. The only downside is that if you want to change a window's size or position and have it saved, you'd first have to disable this registry key. Read more about it here... http://infoprosjoint.net/ij5/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3894


On Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 11:58 am, Patrick wrote:
>There is a registry Tweak for the Win.XP forgetting it's settings, if you copy and 
>paste this 
>: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
>"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000 :
>
>without the first & last colon or space into notepad and then rename it to XP Save 
>Settings.reg or something then merge it with the registry and reboot. I think that 
>you will find then it will remember the folder settings 
>ENJOY a fellow sufferer or used to be Hee-Hee
>
>




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re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Patrick: Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 11:58 am)

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-re: This was the solution (for me) (WhiteNinja2: Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 8:21 am)
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-re: This was the solution (for me) (dg: Fri, Jun 2, 2006, 9:28 pm)
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*re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Chuck Kutschenreuter: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 3:49 pm)
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*re: Question about 'Force Windows to Remember Window and Folder Positions' (Dennis: Sun, Oct 19, 2003, 10:18 pm)
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