I have a question about Set Defaults in Explorer:

See, I've actually done this on my computer, but XP never remembers the settings ! The folder's size isn't even picked up for FIVE SECONDS afterwards. If I manually resize, windows will remember for several minutes before resetting the size of the folder to fullscreen.

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I have this same problem, and it is incredibly annoying. When you spend lots and lots of time in front of you computer, you want it to look a certain way. XP is worse than 98 in that respect. I have looked all over the web, and no one seems to have any advice on this issue. This is the worst aspect of what, so far, seems to be a damn good OS. What's really annoying is that folder view and explorer view are the same now. It used to be in 98 that you could set up all your explorer views a certain way (for instance all "detail view"), and then set up a folder view of the same folder differently (for instance, a folder full of nothing but shortcuts could be set to icon view). Now whenever you set one, it changes the other. The views are not independent antmore. Really, really annoying...


On Saturday, February 8, 2003 at 9:49 am, Azarule wrote:
>I have a question about Set
>Defaults in Explorer:

>
>
>See, I've actually done this on my computer, but XP never remembers the settings
>! The folder's size isn't even picked up for FIVE SECONDS afterwards. If I manually
>resize, windows will remember for several minutes before resetting the size of the
>folder to fullscreen.

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Just set the window to the size you want, hold 'alt' and close the window. Next time, it will be the same size (and still have the status bar).


On Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 8:58 pm, the_chromer wrote:
>
>I have this same problem, and it is incredibly annoying. When you spend lots and
>lots of time in front of you computer, you want it to look a certain way. XP is
>worse than 98 in that respect. I have looked all over the web, and no one seems
>to have any advice on this issue. This is the worst aspect of what, so far, seems
>to be a damn good OS.
>
>What's really annoying is that folder view and explorer view are the same now. It
>used to be in 98 that you could set up all your explorer views a certain way (for
>instance all "detail view"), and then set up a folder view of the same folder differently
>(for instance, a folder full of nothing but shortcuts could be set to icon view).
> Now whenever you set one, it changes the other. The views are not independent antmore.
> Really, really annoying...
>

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Thanks for the tip! Glad to see I am not the only one suffering from this problem. By the way, this trick only seems to work if you do it through the "file->close" menu and not the "x" button.


On Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 1:42 pm, steve wrote:
>Just set the window to the size you want, hold 'alt' and close the window. Next time,
>it will be the same size (and still have the status bar).
>
>

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OK i know this is an old thread but this did not work for me. Once I close Windows Explorer while holding down Alt then open it back up it works it remains how i like it. And if i open any other program and then try it it still works. But when i open Internet Explorer then try to open it it, it opens to its full annoying screen. I dont know why this started but it is really annoying.


On Thursday, July 3, 2003 at 5:25 pm, Alan wrote:
>Thanks for the tip! Glad to see I am not the only one suffering from this problem.
>By the way, this trick only seems to work if you do it through the "file->close"
>menu and not the "x" button.
>
>

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Here we are almost two years since this thread started and still no adequate solution as to why Windows Explorer cannot remember its last configuration - something we have come to expect from almost any other program we use. Just one of those things Billy Gates expects us to live with I guess. Maybe the new SP2 update provides a solution ? Does anyone know ?


On Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 7:18 pm, Mike wrote:
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>OK i know this is an old thread but this did not work for me. Once I close Windows
>Explorer while holding down Alt then open it back up it works it remains how i like
>it. And if i open any other program and then try it it still works. But when i
>open Internet Explorer then try to open it it, it opens to its full annoying screen.
> I dont know why this started but it is really annoying.
>
>

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A note about the fix listed above, do not use the maximize button to resize your window. Use the window edges to resize then select File and Close. Hope this helps


On Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 7:38 pm, Alan wrote:
>Here we are almost two years since this thread started and still no adequate solution
>as to why Windows Explorer cannot remember its last configuration - something we
>have come to expect from almost any other program we use. Just one of those things
>Billy Gates expects us to live with I guess. Maybe the new SP2 update provides a
>solution ? Does anyone know ?
>
>
>

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It doesn't matter what you do since all of these fixes are only temporary. After a while (anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 days), Explorer returns to an annoying little box which has to be manually re-sized. I give up.


On Monday, May 30, 2005 at 3:57 pm, David wrote:
>A note about the fix listed above, do not use the maximize button to resize your
>window. Use the window edges to resize then select File and Close.
>Hope this helps
>
>
>

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