Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size? Intended For Windows Vista Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95 See Set Defaults in Explorer. (Yes, your folders are part of Explorer, even if you aren't using the tree view entitled "Exploring...") This article has been recently supported by and featured on this Internet Webhosting Guide Written by: Annoyances.org Last updated: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Care to discuss this article with other Windows users? Select your operating system here, and click Continue to post your question. - Choose your OS -Windows 7Windows Server 2008Windows VistaWindows Server 2003Windows XPWindows 2000Windows MeWindows 98Windows 95 Previous discussions about this article: (open a message to see applicable responses, if any) [Windows 98] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (KB: Saturday, September 22, 2001) [Windows 2000] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (herbridg: Saturday, October 20, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'Why don't items in my Quick Launch remember their position?' (Whitney Morgan: Sunday, December 30, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Lou Wallis: Monday, April 1, 2002) [Windows Me] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Zathras: Wednesday, May 15, 2002) [Windows 95] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Michael: Wednesday, June 5, 2002) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Thomas Polgar: Sunday, June 16, 2002) [Windows XP] Why don't Desktop folders remember their 'View'? (Chris Upton: Tuesday, October 15, 2002) [Windows 98] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Jeff Medlar: Sunday, June 22, 2003) [Windows 98] Reverse Alphabetical Order (Sasuke Yoshihiro: Monday, June 30, 2003) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Chrissy: Friday, July 4, 2003) [Windows 2000] Multi-monitor: I have to keep moving ALL desktop icons back to the primary monitor every reboot. (Nosferatu: Monday, August 11, 2003) [Windows XP] Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Steve: Sunday, September 7, 2003) [Windows 98] Why don't they rememeber their left-pane columns? (Chris: Wednesday, October 29, 2003) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Brad: Friday, December 19, 2003) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (jason: Thursday, January 1, 2004) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't desktop icons remember the position I carefully left them in?' (Andy Rowland: Friday, July 16, 2004) [Windows XP] Folder tree view & toolbar settings in XP explorer (Kees Lablans: Monday, April 11, 2005) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (Michael Esser: Tuesday, April 19, 2005) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (gordon winter: Friday, May 13, 2005) [Windows 98] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (vlady: Friday, September 2, 2005) [Windows XP] Question about 'Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?' (luap_42: Tuesday, September 13, 2005) Return to "Simple Annoyances"