Lost ability to save settings after install of IE6

[Karl Naumann]

Hello,
We use Win2K on numerous workstations on our network. We also use
Mechanical desktop from Autodesk and Autodesk products require IE6 or
later to be installed on the machine.

Prior to installing IE6, a workstation user (that has local admin privs
on his/her machine) can have numerous programs and windows open (control

panel, admin tools, windows explorer (files) notepad... etc.) and when
that person logs off the machine and logs back on, those same windows
are right back where they were prior to logging off or shutting down.

After installation of IE6 (from the Autodesk CD) all window locations
and open programs are lost and closed. We've observed this on numerous
machines and while not crippling, it's very annoying.

There are 2 people that had IE6 installed (through windrows update)
prior to installing MEch Desktop, and their settings are saved properly
on exit of windows.

3 other machines that had IE 5.5 installed and were upgraded (through
IE6 install from MS) also exhibit the same "no save settings on exit".
Autodesk was not installed on these machines. We tried this since we
suspected the IE6 install from Autodesk being corrupt.

As long as we don't do any other IE6 updates, we can uninstall and
revert back to IE5.5. Like magic, our settings are saved on exit again.

All machines are either at the SP3 level or a few have SP4. They are all

P4 machines 1.2 gig or better, have plenty of ram (512M+) and are
otherwise very stable.

Is there any registry setting that could be edited/added to enable the
saving of program window locations, prior to the IE6 install.
Any other suggestions to regain our previous behavior prior to the IE6
install and keep the latest browser so Mechanical Desktop will function
properly.

Thanks
Karl Naumann
Chesapeake Sciences
Millersville Md.

 

[Alan Edwards]

Make up a file from the lines below. Copy into a file called fix.reg
which should be created in Notepad. Do not retype, copy in case of
errors. The 1st line in the file is the line REGEDIT4
Make sure your mail or news reader does not add any spaces to the end
of a line.
The last line must be blank.
Doubleclick fix.reg

-----copy below this line fix.reg------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000001
//This is to fix the problem in some IE6 installations where
// windows explorer does not remember opened windows at startup
//This value does not seem to appear pre-IE6

---- end file above here

....Alan