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re: Making folders Remember their 'View'
Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 3:01 pm
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Posted by LeBaroness (5 messages posted)

Regarding the problem with folders in XP remembering their settings, I struggled with this since I got XP in April 2003. No fix worked. Then I downloaded SP2 and all of a sudden the folders were exactly as I wanted them! I didn't have to do a thing...it just happened.

On Monday, March 1, 2004 at 10:03 am, Jean wrote:
>
>With regard to remembering each folder's view settings in windows explorer:
>
>In my case, I've noticed that the problem (in my case) is also related to the specific
>way you use to open windows explorer, i.e. which shortcut you used. If for example
>I use the "My Computer" shortcut or the "Windows Explorer shortcut" (on the Programs>Accessories
>menu) in its original state, i.e. NOT MODIFIED in any way, or "windows key + E" on
>my keyboard, my windows explorer seems to be working correctly with regards to remembering
>each folder's view. However, if you modify the windows explorer shortcut to open
>to a specific path, e.g. by setting the Target of the shorcut to the following:
>
>%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e
>
>which is used to open explorer to your C drive in stead of your My Documents folder,
>then it won't remember each folder's view settings. In fact, the only way you can
>change a folder's view permanently IN THAT SPECIFIC INSTANCE OF WINDOWS EXPLORER
>which was started with the modified shortcut, is to use the use the "apply to all
>folders" button in the "folder options" in which case of course it affects and changes
>all your folders views.
>
>Thus, IN MY CASE, modified shorcuts seems to be the problem. I have not verified
>this over a long period of time and maybe windows explorer will stil sometimes forget
>a folder's view.
>
>One way to maybe fix this, is instead use: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,c:\
>
>This seems to do the trick. I got it from "http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1075925998"
>
>

Written in response to:: Making folders Remember their 'View' (Jean: Monday, March 1, 2004 at 10:03 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Making folders Remember their 'View' (p645n: Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 9:01 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Chris Upton: Tue, Oct 15, 2002, 4:02 am)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (bluebeard: Tue, Oct 15, 2002, 8:00 am)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Richard Ociepka: Tue, Oct 22, 2002, 4:22 am)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (J Sandberg: Sun, Dec 29, 2002, 6:38 pm)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Xp killer: Sun, Aug 24, 2003, 3:28 am)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Traveler: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 8:17 pm)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Carl Garthwaite: Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 12:19 pm)

Making folders Remember their 'View' (Jean: Mon, Mar 1, 2004, 10:03 am)

re: Making folders Remember their 'View' (LeBaroness: Sat, Sep 18, 2004, 3:01 pm)

re: Making folders Remember their 'View' (p645n: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 9:01 pm)

re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Tovid: Sun, Jun 5, 2005, 5:21 am)

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