Vista does not remember window sizes, views, or columns - shameful Microsoft embarrasment.

[Destin_FL]

I have employed the fixes.... the Registry fix, the Folder View options,
everything that has been suggested on MVP websites, etc. etc.

Vista (Home Premium in my case) will remember these settings perfectly well
during a session. But as soon as you reboot the computer, all the settings
are lost.

I really am simply stunned that Microsoft, who I am generally a real fan of,
could spend so much in terms of human resources, money, time and energy and
still be soooooooooooo way off base with regard to the absolute simplest of
things in the operating system. I mean really, it is comical. They should
be ashamed to put these operating systems out for the public to serve as
guinea pigs. Not to mention all the headaches it generates for computer
manufacturers and retailers.

Remembering window and folder view properties is something so incredibly
basic, and really in the long run, far more important than making the OS
pretty. I'd rather it just remember my folder settings than look pretty.
Trying to keep up aesthetically with Apple really is a BONEHEAD move if they
can't get the OS to work at the most basic level.

And this folder settings thing is all over the Internet on websites and in
newsgroups. Alot of people have this problem. Vista should have never been
released with such a huge laundry list of bugs not fixed. And certainly
nothing as simple as not being able to remember folder and view settings.
Shameful.

Tim

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Here is a suggestion by Brink (Shawn):
You will need to reset the folder view settings. Look at method two in
this tutorial for how to do it. The download will be the easiest way.
This will allow Vista to remember your settings as you last left them.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html

 

[Destin_FL]

Thanks, but actually that is the very website and the very method (the
registry fix) that I already tried. Twice. Doesn't stick. And this is a
brand new computer, less than 72 hours old. I understand how Windows can't
be expected to be perfect after users get their systems all gunked up with
garbage, believe me, I get that. I respect that and live by it, but this is
a bug in their brand new overly-hyped and vaunted operating system, pure and
simple.

Thanks for the response and the effort to help though, sincerely.

Let's hope Microsoft

1. admits this is a problem, and
2. fixes it with SP1 if not sooner.

Tim

 

[Dave]

It might be a bug if it happened to most users, but it doesn't.
It's more likely a permissions problem, where the settings aren't being
saved.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Yeah, it does seem like a bug lots of persons have tried the correct method
and its still not remembered no matter what they do.

 

[Destin_FL]

"bug" is not defined as something that necessarily happens to "most"
users.... it is simply defined as a glitch in the software at the written
code level. Doesn't have to happen to a large chunk of users. Now I would
agree that it needs to happen with some regularity, or yes, I would say that
it is more likely at the users machine. But in the case of something that
is widespread all over the Internet and in newsgroups, this is a bug.

Apologists and Microsoft management can deny it exists, but it still exists,
and just adds to the reasons that the general public doesn't want any part
of it. Bug, not bug, flaw, blemish, boo-boo, whatever..... doesn't matter
what you call it.

T

 

[mayayana]

Remembering window and folder view properties is something so incredibly

basic,

Yes, but in my experience Windows has never
managed that. In WinME they couldn't even
manage to keep the FileListView window within
the folder window... Files and folders tend to
somehow "slide over" to the right, causing a
horizontal scrollbar!
The lack of window size memory can be fixed
in Win9x (and probably Win2000) by editing the folder.htt
file, but unfortunately, since WinXP there's no true
"webview" in folders, so there's far less control over
window display.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

It's been mentioned elsewhere that thanks to working with external people
who were running into this, I believe a specific race condition leading to
cache corruption was found and should lead to a fix in SP1.

This was previously disclosed, I don't recall where/how.

The shell has great people working on it, and great testers and great tools,
but the people externally who help track down stuff like this are super
valuable and appreciated.

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