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re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?'
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 9:02 am
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Posted by Troubled User (2 messages posted)


I had the same problem, but it was on spanned dual monitors and I traced it to an NVidia driver setup problem. I found that setting Open windows on: 'Last display' caused it. May not be applicable to your problem, apologies... but it may help someone else.


On Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 3:11 am, luap_42 wrote:
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>Thanks for that. It's far better.
>
>I'm going to keep hacking at Xp though, as I'm sure someone else will have this problem,
>so may as well find out what causes it. My latest theory is the new monitor I am
>using. Very high resolution 22" CRT, maybe the monitors modes are confusing XP so
>that it thinks it is set differently when opening windows. When I find the cause
>I'll post back here. Thanks again.
>
>


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re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 3:11 am)

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*re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 5:18 am)

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-Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 3:54 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 5:36 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 6:52 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Ricer46: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 7:10 am)
*re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 7:28 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Sitting Bear: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 7:55 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 8:28 am)
*re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Sitting Bear: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 1:01 pm)
*re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Barry W j: Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 11:07 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (dan: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 1:49 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Wed, Sep 14, 2005, 3:11 am)
-re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Troubled User: Wed, Jan 4, 2006, 9:02 am)
*re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tue, Jan 10, 2006, 5:18 am)
*re: Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (howardroth: Tue, Aug 8, 2006, 8:07 pm)
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