Desktop Folders

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I have XP sp2 pro. I have folders created on my desktop that have shortcuts
in them. In the last 4 weeks the folders do not keep there settings (icons,
order by, etc).

I have the windows value for windows settings set high at 8000.

What else should I check.
 
Explorer will save 2 separate views based on the path from the desktop as seen in folders pane of
explorer.

Desktop\test

can save a different view from:

Desktop\My Computer\C:\Documents and Settings\Keith\Desktop\test

Check to make sure that is not the cause of the behavior that your seeing.

It's also possible that BagMRU key which is the index of saved folder views could be corrupted, with
more that one folder pointing to the same saved settings. If you could export the following key and
e-mail me the export file, I'd appreciate that. I'm working on a script to check for this condition
and it'd be nice to have some real world data. The key is:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU"
 
**** cabruntz e-mailed me the reg export ****

Hi,

I don't see multiple index entries pointing to the same view, but I did notice that you have exactly
5000 entries. Also, there are gaps in the numbering of the first level of subkeys of BagMRU (0, 1,
2, 14) and it's this first level of subkeys that correspond to folders on the desktop. They are
normally created in numerical order -- an educated guess is that your folder views are being limited
to 5000, and the missing index entries were perceived as the oldest by the algorithm explorer uses
when it has to delete old entries to make room for new ones. So check your folder limit value here:

"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam"

What is the value for "BagMRU Size"?


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


Keith Miller MVP said:
Explorer will save 2 separate views based on the path from the desktop as seen in folders pane of
explorer.

Desktop\test

can save a different view from:

Desktop\My Computer\C:\Documents and Settings\Keith\Desktop\test

Check to make sure that is not the cause of the behavior that your seeing.

It's also possible that BagMRU key which is the index of saved folder views could be corrupted, with
more that one folder pointing to the same saved settings. If you could export the following key and
e-mail me the export file, I'd appreciate that. I'm working on a script to check for this condition
and it'd be nice to have some real world data. The key is:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU"

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


cabruntz said:
I have XP sp2 pro. I have folders created on my desktop that have shortcuts
in them. In the last 4 weeks the folders do not keep there settings (icons,
order by, etc).

I have the windows value for windows settings set high at 8000.

What else should I check.
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