Let me set my settings and let them stay set

[Fernando Putallaz]

Try this.. go to "view", select whatever you want, then "tools", "folder
options"-"view", "Apply to all folders".. and teorically don´t have to
change anymore.
I hope that helps.

FeRHeDio.!

 

[Dan Buske]

Windows XP keeps trying to return to the defaults
Microsoft wants. One example is it keeps returning to
icon view in windows explorer. I want list view.
Is there some way to stop Microsoft from trying to
control how I set-up windows XP? So it stays the way I
set it up.

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

Increase folder view size limit to 8000 (line 2, left column)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

I've always wondered about that "fix"...wouldn't it bloat the registry?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the idea of "bags", but wouldn't it be simpler if
there was only *one* entry, acting as a template, instead of allowing this
to bloat to 8000 entries of "mostly the same data"?

 

[David Candy]

I for instance never have more than around 250 settings stored. So 400 is a good choice. At the moment I have 258 folders visited. This takes up 600K of registry space. If we extrapolate this to 400 we see that the standard storage space is approx 1 meg. If one increases this to 4000 then presumbably is a linear increase so that is 10 Meg of registry storage space. And most folders there you may never revisit. So a last visited of 400 folders is a good compromise.

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Homer, David's expert explanation is sufficient i suppose ?

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

I suppose so.

Homer, David's expert explanation is sufficient i suppose ?

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