x-scratch Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 when you update windows defender the settings come back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kralik Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Happens to me. Damn annoying. Maybe a SP1 fix? No SP1 doesn't fix it... I've tried... it drove me crazy!!!! :angry: Now I just ignore it... it changes back the way I set it automatically and changes views automatically... really strange if MS did not know this is happening!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kralik Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Thought I'd inform MS abt this error.. they are charging f****in $46 for support by email!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crazy: :angry: This error is typical btw.. of a company that designed the OS where you have to click on the "start" button to shut down your computer.. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerrow Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 For God's "stake"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 I don't recall this problem pre SP1 or post SP1, but then again I don't use Vista. If I noticed this, it would've ****ed me off, but I don't remember it happening when I used Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikee99 Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 This error is typical btw.. of a company that designed the OS where you have to click on the "start" button to shut down your computer.. :no: Where else should they put the shut down button? I actually think it's logical. The Start menu is supposed to "start" a task. Shutting down, locking, or restarting a system is a task that needs to be "started". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nodiaque Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Since you want a way to reproduce, try to reproduce that. Game explorer default view is large icon. I open it to list game, close it since I don't feel like playing any game in it right now. Then 3 minutes later, I open it again (in the meantime, I watched tv) and oh, list view, or title view, or any other view except one that's in icon. Tweak? none. WGA crack? not needed. It happened even after a fresh windows install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted August 12, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 12, 2008 See, when I do that, it's Large Icon view every time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis.A Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I hate this bug as well... I've opted to scratch the explorer alltogether and opted for Directory Opus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belazor Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 The reason why it appears to be not fixed for everybody post-SP1 is because your icon settings registry keys were already corrupted. I had this problem pre-SP1, I installed SP1 and purged the cache, and it's been working flawlessly ever since. I can't seem to produce the registry file at this point, I don't know where I put it :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 The reason why it appears to be not fixed for everybody post-SP1 is because your icon settings registry keys were already corrupted. Nope, that's not it. I did an integrated SP1 install on 2 seperate pcs and one exhibits the issue, the other does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkpuma Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Hmm, I have noticed this too, on and off. I havn't noticed it much recently (since upgrading to sp1?), but it still happens sometimes and is extremely annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belazor Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Nope, that's not it. I did an integrated SP1 install on 2 seperate pcs and one exhibits the issue, the other does not.Odd, did you try deleting the settings again just to be sure?I've had 3 Vista installations now (2x 32bit, 1x 64bit) and both have had this issue fixed by either deleting the folder view settings clean out of the registry, or just not setting any views prior to installing SP1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 See, when I do that, it's Large Icon view every time... Mine always works fine for like a month, large icon view every time, but then it just starts randomly changing to something different and it starts happening in random folders. This happens on all my vista pc's. I can use the registry fix which fixes it.. for a while, then it comes back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nodiaque Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I have that problem in other folder, like one of my download folder. I set to details, change columns for the one I want. I close, I open it again and oh, large icon. Set back to details, columns need refixing, close, open, list view... It's random, never the samething. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexecutil Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I can confirm it still happens on a freshly installed SP1 integrated version. I can't seem to consistently reproduce it though. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalsoft Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 This is a very annoying bug, i tried registry hacks to improve it but it still exsists - my only true annoyance with Windows Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solardog Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I can confirm it still happens on a freshly installed SP1 integrated version. I can't seem to consistently reproduce it though. :( I'll back you up on that. If anything it may be worse, I've recently been in a directory that goes about 4 folders deep and it went from list(my preference) to tile to detail and back to tile.. very annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chan Smith Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 It happens to me all the time and it's really annoying. Really bad. It takes me for ever to go to the setting I like again. I go back and it's changed again. I hate it. How can it be that MS not notice this bug? Folders losing their view settings? Perhaps they tested Vista based on newbie usage and not heavy usage.Why is it that when I set my personal folder to show thumbnail like on a default install. then when I come back later, it's in small details view and I have to change to back to thumbnail. Please, MS test it by browsing loads of folders..I mean lots of it. Not 20, but hundreds. Remember Vista have like a million folders and for one thing it won't remember settings for every of it like it SHOULD. If I say Pictures folder should have thumbnails then I mean it! But no, I gets faced with a Pictures folder in basic format and details list - no picture-related tools. Obsivously this IS a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceBrewedBeer Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Hate to revive old topics, but this is also happening to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted January 30, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 30, 2009 It's a bug. It should be fixed in Vista SP2 RC and Windows 7 beta. If you don't want to wait for those, you would need to follow the "reset" steps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Vercetti Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Is is fixed in Vista SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted June 30, 2009 Supervisor Share Posted June 30, 2009 Is is fixed in Vista SP2 Not for me. Most of my folders are set the way I want them (and only occasionally revert to something obscene like grouped Tiles). A few of my folders, however, seem to have become linked so that they always share the same view. The Computer and Windows folder views, for example, are stuck such that changing the view of Computer to Tiles/Grouped by Type also, consistently, changes the view of the Windows folder to the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Forget about the folder view bug. How about fixing the thread title instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesVault Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 this issue is also caused by ccleaner. Don't use ccleaner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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