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re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?'
Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 11:04 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim Pivonka
(31 messages posted)
On Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 7:03 pm, Dante wrote:
>I have the same problem. Whenever I restart or boot up my icons all arrange in
the
>upper left hand corner. Auto arrange is never checked. Did anybody here find an
>answer??
You may wish to look this over, and decide it it's worth trying. It is from the
site cited at the end.
""(...) sometimes Win XP refuses to remember your folder settings, even when the
checkbox "Remember each folder's view settings" is checked. By default, Windows XP
remembers the last 400 folder settings. After 400, it's supposed to discard the oldest
settings, so that it always remembers the most recent 400.
In some cases, however, it just stops remembering new settings when the number of
settings hits 400.
The steps that follow will clear all your old folder settings so Windows XP can remember
more, and also raises the limit higher than 400. Here's what you do.
* First, roll up your sleeves and launch Regedit.
* Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows
\ Shell. If this key is not present, skip to the next Registry key listed in the
procedure.
* If a subkey named BagMRU is present, delete the entire subkey.
* If a subkey named Bags is present, delete the entire subkey.
* Look for a value named BagMRU Size (with a space between BagMRU and Size).
* If this value is not present, select New, DWORD Value from the Edit menu and
name the new value BagMRU Size.
* Double-click on the BagMRU Size value, choose Decimal, and enter the desired
number of folder settings for Win XP to remember (for example, 1,000).
* Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_ CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows
\ ShellNoRoam.
* If present, repeat the earlier deletions.
* That should cure Windows XP's faulty memory. The OS will "forget" all existing
folder settings, but from this point onward, it should remember them correctly."
copied from:
http://www.toejumper.net/speed5/winex5.htm
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