How to fix annoyance, folder view doesn't stay (despite unticking "Remember each folder's view setti

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This is a major annoyance, esp. since I've gone back to Win98SE at home and
it's obedient behaviour and coming back to this recalcitrant OS here at work
<g>.

I like the details folder view with enough space to see filename and date.
Not only does that spacing always shrink to some default after a while
several times a day, after a reboot, I lose the details view and it defaults
to the large icon view. I'm really fed up with this behaviour. Can someone
recommend a reliable solution to this? I'd really appreciate it.

TIA. :oD
 
I've an idea, hope it works :-). Set a folder to the details view, then do
Tools -> Folder Options, click the View tab - then click "Like Current
Folder".

Might work,
Allied
 
No, that's exactly it -- that's what has never worked in Win2K. I have been
doing contract work for 16 years now and so move around all over the place
to different computers and different installations. In last few years,
contracts have had Win2K and I'm fed up with this behaviour. What did it is
that in February I also upgraded at home to Win2K and just got really sick
and tired of that behaviour at home, too! <g> Because of this type of
annoyance, I went back Win98SE at home and it's such a relief to have a
system that works that it's been hard to have to put up with it _still_ the
office <g>. Every single day on startup I have to go through the rigmorole
of doing the "like current folder" on first launching Windows Explorer, and
then at least one other time throughout the day until next day's reboot
(unlike in Win98SE, where after setting that a couple of times after a
wipe/reinstall and the folder always displays as I set it!!!!).

I'm hoping even something as drastic as a regedit. Surely there has got to
be some way to get Win2K to mind me. Does anyone know how to "permanently"
fix this and have the folders reliably and consistently display correctly??

Thanks.
 
No, not normal. Your profile may be somehow corrupt. I've been using this OS
since the days of Windows NT and never had this issue.

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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| No, that's exactly it -- that's what has never worked in Win2K. I have
been
| doing contract work for 16 years now and so move around all over the place
| to different computers and different installations. In last few years,
| contracts have had Win2K and I'm fed up with this behaviour. What did it
is
| that in February I also upgraded at home to Win2K and just got really sick
| and tired of that behaviour at home, too! <g> Because of this type of
| annoyance, I went back Win98SE at home and it's such a relief to have a
| system that works that it's been hard to have to put up with it _still_
the
| office <g>. Every single day on startup I have to go through the
rigmorole
| of doing the "like current folder" on first launching Windows Explorer,
and
| then at least one other time throughout the day until next day's reboot
| (unlike in Win98SE, where after setting that a couple of times after a
| wipe/reinstall and the folder always displays as I set it!!!!).
|
| I'm hoping even something as drastic as a regedit. Surely there has got
to
| be some way to get Win2K to mind me. Does anyone know how to
"permanently"
| fix this and have the folders reliably and consistently display
correctly??
|
| Thanks.
 
My experience is similar. My Win2K installation is about 4 1/2 years old
and it will no longer remember folder settings for some folders no matter
how the various options are set. For other folders, the settings are
effectively permanently set and cannot be changed. One folder in
particular is sorted by name. I can sort it by the modified date by
clicking on the column header, but switching to another folder and back
again will show it sorted by name. This has been an annoyance for a long
time now, but not so great an annoyance that I'm ready to wipe the system
and reinstall. I suspect that some registry key is corrupted and deleting
it might fix the problem, but I have no idea what key is involved.
 
What happens if you logon as a new user? (create a new account in 'User
Accounts').

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| My experience is similar. My Win2K installation is about 4 1/2 years old
| and it will no longer remember folder settings for some folders no matter
| how the various options are set. For other folders, the settings are
| effectively permanently set and cannot be changed. One folder in
| particular is sorted by name. I can sort it by the modified date by
| clicking on the column header, but switching to another folder and back
| again will show it sorted by name. This has been an annoyance for a long
| time now, but not so great an annoyance that I'm ready to wipe the system
| and reinstall. I suspect that some registry key is corrupted and deleting
| it might fix the problem, but I have no idea what key is involved.
 
It's funny that this happens wherever I go. My contracts can range from a
few days to a few weeks to a few months, but I've not had good luck with
this feature (btw, not the _only_ reason I changed OSs, as stated, but it
was this type of behaviour that made me fed up <g>).

I've never seen how I can logon as a new user. The account I have was
created for me and I don't feel I can ask them to create a new one. If if I
did, how would that fix this situation as I'd have to use that new account
in future to have this feature work properly (until it, too, became
corrupted <lol>).

Is there a registry fix? Can we reset folder views? That seems best
solution. I'm really tired of this not working, more than any of the other
bugs I have to deal with, since I must deal with different versions of
docts. and so "details" view is easiest to use.

Anyway, any thoughts appreciated. As mentioned, I never have this problem
at home, but deal with it every day in my different contracts.

Thanks much! :oD
 
StargateFanFromWork said:
It's funny that this happens wherever I go. My contracts can range from a
few days to a few weeks to a few months, but I've not had good luck with
this feature (btw, not the _only_ reason I changed OSs, as stated, but it
was this type of behaviour that made me fed up <g>).
Click to expand...

If it's any comfort :-) I notice this too on any Win2K installation I've
had over the years - there have been many - and NT before that if I
recall. On certain folders I like to select "Detail View", on others I
prefer "Icon View" (so I don't want to "Make all folders like Current
Folder"). I can set them up the way I want and they'll stick for a while
but eventually they revert to icon view.

I've always assumed that some Windows housekeeping process that operates
occasionally in the background resets them as a consequence of it's
actions but I don't know and I've never really looked for a solution -
just learned to live with it. I agree it's annoying though.
 
Sid Knee said:
If it's any comfort :-) I notice this too on any Win2K installation I've
had over the years - there have been many - and NT before that if I
recall. On certain folders I like to select "Detail View", on others I
prefer "Icon View" (so I don't want to "Make all folders like Current
Folder"). I can set them up the way I want and they'll stick for a while
but eventually they revert to icon view.

I've always assumed that some Windows housekeeping process that operates
occasionally in the background resets them as a consequence of it's
actions but I don't know and I've never really looked for a solution -
just learned to live with it. I agree it's annoying though.
Click to expand...

<g> Yes, it's something that's very prevalent with Win2K. I set certain
things in Win98SE and do reg edits, etc., etc., and they STAY. With Win2K
at home, I kept running into brick walls constantly -- reg edits I'd do to
fix things to the way I needed them would last a couple of reboots or so,
then they'd revert back. I'd constantly have file sharing violations and so
many other things that coupled with loss of DOS, etc., etc., for me, were
the last straw. I switched over to Win2K to begin with only because of 2
programs that didn't work in Win98SE and because of 3 USB issues: new hub,
new MP3-player and new small flash drive, the latter not supported for
Win98SE. In the end, my peace of mind in having a system that minds me and
does what _I_ say and doesn't dictate to me have made me go back to 98SE and
I'm happy again without frustrations of what I was living with on a daily
basis with 2K. And the USB issues turned out to be non-issues, I'm happy to
say. All I needed to do was hunt down a couple of drivers, the hub didn't
even need anything. That's it! The 2 programs I felt I could live without.
With one I didn't gain any real functionality over the earlier version and
the other, a DTP program, wasn't even anywhere near as good as what I had
before so I could go back to the other earlier program with ease. The
absolutely only "problem" I have with 98SE, if I can call it a problem, is
that I have to unplug the MP3 player if it's connected as Windows won't load
with it plugged in. That's really a difficult thing to live with <not!>.
As for other issues, well, I have the same issues with 2K as with 98SE, I
need a faster computer with more RAM. But 2K didn't help out with that
anyway <g>.

But all that aside, I really need to fix this issue with the folder view.
If I didn't have various versions for files, etc., and necessarily very long
file names, I could live with the default explorer window view of large
icons. But the fact is that I can't.

Can anyone recommend something to fix folder views to what _we_ need and not
what Win2K dictates is the right view?

Thanks! :oD
 
"It's funny that this happens wherever I go"

Not to be smart but maybe this is a clue.

"I've never seen how I can logon as a new user"

Control Panel|Users and Passwords|Add

or logon as local administrator and delete (or rename) your profile then
when the user next logs on a new profile will be created from an image in
\default user

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| It's funny that this happens wherever I go. My contracts can range from a
| few days to a few weeks to a few months, but I've not had good luck with
| this feature (btw, not the _only_ reason I changed OSs, as stated, but it
| was this type of behaviour that made me fed up <g>).
|
| I've never seen how I can logon as a new user. The account I have was
| created for me and I don't feel I can ask them to create a new one. If if
I
| did, how would that fix this situation as I'd have to use that new account
| in future to have this feature work properly (until it, too, became
| corrupted <lol>).
|
| Is there a registry fix? Can we reset folder views? That seems best
| solution. I'm really tired of this not working, more than any of the
other
| bugs I have to deal with, since I must deal with different versions of
| docts. and so "details" view is easiest to use.
|
| Anyway, any thoughts appreciated. As mentioned, I never have this problem
| at home, but deal with it every day in my different contracts.
|
| Thanks much! :oD
 
"It's funny that this happens wherever I go"

Not to be smart but maybe this is a clue.

"I've never seen how I can logon as a new user"

Control Panel|Users and Passwords|Add
Click to expand...

<silly> Yes, of course, but that's the whole thing. I'm not able to
create just any old new account at the office. They create the
accounts and set permissions and such that I wouldn't be able to do.
My profile allows me to access certain folders that others can't,
etc., and grants me access to some programs and not others, etc.
or logon as local administrator and delete (or rename) your profile then
when the user next logs on a new profile will be created from an image in
\default user
Click to expand...

I don't believe I have even that ability. But a fix other than this
might work. They lock the computers and registry up a lot but I've
noticed that some things can be done.

Anyway, would appreciate any help. There must be a workable solution
that doesn't involve the possibility of damaging/corrupting my own
profile on purpose! <g> (which I bet is what will happen if I start
messing around with profiles. We're already more than one person on
that machine already!)

TIA.
--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| It's funny that this happens wherever I go. My contracts can range from a
| few days to a few weeks to a few months, but I've not had good luck with
| this feature (btw, not the _only_ reason I changed OSs, as stated, but it
| was this type of behaviour that made me fed up <g>).
|
| I've never seen how I can logon as a new user. The account I have was
| created for me and I don't feel I can ask them to create a new one. If if
I
| did, how would that fix this situation as I'd have to use that new account
| in future to have this feature work properly (until it, too, became
| corrupted <lol>).
|
| Is there a registry fix? Can we reset folder views? That seems best
| solution. I'm really tired of this not working, more than any of the
other
| bugs I have to deal with, since I must deal with different versions of
| docts. and so "details" view is easiest to use.
|
| Anyway, any thoughts appreciated. As mentioned, I never have this problem
| at home, but deal with it every day in my different contracts.
|
| Thanks much! :oD
Click to expand...
 
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