Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? Tuesday, October 15, 2002 at 4:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Chris Upton (1 messages posted) My annoyance appears to be related; spacing and location of Desktop items is remembered, but the contents of all my Desktop folders are often being changed from 'Icon' view to 'List' view. It appears to happen at random, some nights never but others a number of times. I installed XP lean and mean. I use the 'Classic' look desktop, all programmes are accessed from the Desktop via a Shortcut or folder. I have nothing in 'Start', 'Programs', etc. I'll arrange programmes etc within each Desktop folder to be in 'Icon' view, and without telling XP otherwise (wittingly) the next time I might open any desktop folder they are all displayed in 'List' view. I feel it might be 'Explorer' related as I access it via a Desktop Shortcut and my view within Explorer is 'List'. I cannot find any preference setting within XP where I can tell it that I want a 'List' view within Explorer but an 'Icon' view for my Desktop folders. I am aware I am able to apply either to everything. Apologies if I have missed something simple, I did not encounter this one with '98' and a couple of nights at MS's site shed no light ... and I'm starting to get really pissed off having to rearrange the furniture most times I fire up this box. Regards, Chris Upton. Responses to this message: re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (bluebeard: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 at 8:00 am) re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Richard Ociepka: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 4:22 am) re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (J Sandberg: Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 6:38 pm) re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Traveler: Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 8:17 pm) re: Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Tovid: Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 5:21 am) 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) 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