Properties won't stay put

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Johnny Schmitt

This is driving me crazy. About every three or four days, after booting up
my computer, my personal "theme" for my desktop reverts back to XP standard
stuff. I change the size of my icons, use a "classic" theme of maple
coloring, and other little personal tweaks. When I least suspect it, after
booting up, everything changes back again.

I have NAV, Webroot Spysweeper, spybot, and Ad-Aware all installed. After
running them and getting a clean bill of health, my problem still exists. A
few days the problem included re-arranging the icons on the bottom half of
my desktop without changing those on the top half?

I am running WinXP Media Center Edition, SP3 on a 2.3 GHz Pentium with 3 gb
memory and more than 150 gb of free room on the hard drive.
 
This is driving me crazy. About every three or four days, after booting up
my computer, my personal "theme" for my desktop reverts back to XP standard
stuff. I change the size of my icons, use a "classic" theme of maple
coloring, and other little personal tweaks. When I least suspect it, after
booting up, everything changes back again.

I have NAV, Webroot Spysweeper, spybot, and Ad-Aware all installed. After
running them and getting a clean bill of health, my problem still exists. A
few days the problem included re-arranging the icons on the bottom half of
my desktop without changing those on the top half?

I am running WinXP Media Center Edition, SP3 on a 2.3 GHz Pentium with 3 gb
memory and more than 150 gb of free room on the hard drive.
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Software you`ve d/l in the past that is still working ?
 
Try this:

In the registry navigate to the following keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program
Manager\Restrictions

In the right pane look for the name NoSaveSettings, if its data value is 1
change it 0. (double click to change)
 
I tried checking the reg keys and the only one that had "noSave Settings"
was the last one you listed, but it was already a value of "0".

This time my computer went five days without a mess up, but this morning
when I turned it on,...Boom, it had changed back again.

Johnny
 
Delete NoSaveSettings and see what happens. It is disabled anyway. Backup the
key to be safe.
 
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