Custom views of folders in XP Home linked to each other

[M-80]

For some reason I'm having a problem where after I finish customizing
a folder to view as a picture, music or video folder other unrelated
folders are also changed to the same view style. And when I change
those folders back to a normal view then the previous folder's view
gets changed back to normal view. Sometimes this happens where the
root of my hard drive's partitions (I have them as C: and D: on the
same drive) gets changed to the same custom view and since there's no
way of changing the roots back to normal view I have to go into Folder
Options>View tab and reset all the folders to their default settings
either by setting a misc folder to normal view and clicking the [Apply
to All Folders] button or just pressing the [Reset All Folders]
button.

Has anybody else run into this problem/glitch/bug? Is it a well known
problem? I haven't been able to find mention of it anywhere else. Some
people have suggested deleting any Desktop.ini files I can find. But
it still does this. Deleting the Desktop.ini files in either the C: or
D: partition don't do anything adverse to Windows XP anyway as I've
found out.

Since this is a problem that doesn't initiate the bug submition
feature, I'm just wondering if Microsoft is aware of it.

 

[Kelly]

Yes, they are aware of it. Some information here:

One of my special folders (e.g. My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Shared
Documents, etc) has lost its name, lost its icon, or has the wrong Task Pane
template, how can I get it back?

Folders - Special
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_f.htm#xp_folders_special

For reasons unknown, some users find that drives or system folders display
the wrong tasks relative to the folder contents. The C: drive may display
music tasks; The 'My Music' folder may display picture tasks, etc. While
user-created folders allow access to the 'Customize' tab in the 'Properties'
dialog, drives and system folders do not give you this option.

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

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