EL1TE Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 See if this helps: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-wi...w-settings.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Crespin Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Thanks for that link! It appears the registry patch I applied did much of that, but I went ahead and did it all again anyway, I'll see what happens. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Pretty good ;) this happens in SP1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Caro Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 The most annoying thing is when whenever there are a couple if pictures, windows changes the columns to "date taken" and such things. Or when there is a music file in the windows "downloads" folder and windows changes the blue icon to a yellow icon that has a music file inside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cropcircles Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Been happening with me since XP. I've tried numerous registry hacks, ect. no frickn' luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 MS is not going to know unless we let them know so let them know!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnzoFX Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 No problem here with several XP installs and 2 Vista Installs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebdomine Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Never had that problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted April 20, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 20, 2008 I come across this problem frequently, and quite frankly it becomes more and more annoying each time I encounter it. Sometimes it decides to use 'Extra Large Icons' view in a folder where it's obviously not needed. It's ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpidemiK Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 This is an annoying problem, but it can be fixed by a simple registry tweak. I always run this after installing a fresh copy of Vista. Vista_View_Fix.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted April 20, 2008 Supervisor Share Posted April 20, 2008 I see this issue as well, both on XP and Vista x64 (SP1, all updates, no service tweaks, no dll hacking). I can save folder views and window sizes for only a short amount of time, but after a few days, every single folder slowly changes to look like this (including Pictures, system folders, Music, Videos, Documents, Program Files, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaymaa Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 This is an annoying problem, but it can be fixed by a simple registry tweak. I always run this after installing a fresh copy of Vista. and Xp sp2 ? i have that proplem too, anything there for it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-wi...w-settings.html I never had this bug until it randomly showed up recently, but this fixed it right up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cropcircles Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 (edited) MS is not going to know unless we let them know so let them know!!!!!!!!!!! Agreed. I'll send a link to scobleizer and see if he can lead is to the right developer at MS land. ..done! Edited April 20, 2008 by cropcircles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
way2quik Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Bump. I found this thread. Yes!!! Will try the link ViperAFK posted, method 2 to download. Hope that will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Bump.I found this thread. Yes!!! Will try the link ViperAFK posted, method 2 to download. Hope that will do. Yeah the link I posted does work, but keep it bookmarked becuse after a while it comes back :( This is definitely the most annoying bug in vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastage Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Yes I have this too! I dunno what triggers it but every few times I open a folder everything changes... annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrrgh Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Unfortunately SP1 didn't fix this for me. I need to delete the bags every couple months or so to keep Vista from forgetting my folder settings. After deleting the bags everything works nicely for some time, then one folder forgets its settings (window size, view settings) and eventually more and more folders start reverting back to default settings. Some folders just forget view settings while some seem to get a complete reset and start opening up using the default window size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humcheepeng Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Personally, I don't actually use custom view settings for different folders. So, what I did was to delete off the values in both Bags keys, then right-click on them to set the Permissions to deny every privilege for all users. This prevents Vista from modifying the values over time. The problem has since been resolved for good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllMac Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 ViperAFK - Thanks for the link to that fix. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensurround Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-wi...w-settings.htmlI never had this bug until it randomly showed up recently, but this fixed it right up. Worked great for me, too. Thanks a million, that was driving me insane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I'll have to give that a go. It's absolutely infuriating that Vista keeps forgetting my folder view settings - it seems such a trivial issue to address that I'm astounded that Microsoft hasn't fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 This always happens to me. Has been doing it since the Windows XP days. But back then I set all my folders the way i liked, then I removed permissions to the registry keys that contained the information to change folder view settings. I set it to only allow reading of the entries and it worked like a charm in XP. However, in vista it doesn't :-\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerXis Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Like this, as a com developer this is really annoying. It makes opening my system32 folder a real pain. A loooooooong pain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikee99 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 I don't know if someone else mentioned this as well, but what's also really annoying is the default window size. You just can't set what you want it to be. MS decided to make the default window size really small. What's worse, is that I like to have big icons. So, I can hardly see anything on newly opened windows, because the damn window size is too small. I really don't understand why they haven't fixed this issue yet. It's not like it's rare or difficult to locate. And it IS really, really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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