Desktop State - Save?

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Something I remember from the early days of Windows 98 - and went away for
no reason I could find - was that the state of the desktop (open windows)
was restored when booting Windows. For example, if you shutdown or rebooted
with Control Panel open, or any other folder, that or those folder(s) would
be where they were when you left off.

When doing the initial installs of Windows 2000, this was the case once
again. Of course, one has to go through so many updates, patches and add-on
installs to make Win2k current (to say nothing of safe!). I found in all
cases here that by the time I was done updating everything, the state-saving
as such had stopped happening.

I'm calling this "Save State" because I remember the terminology from the
pre-Windows days. My apologies if it's called something else. :) So
where'd it go? And is that a fix, or a bug, er, anomaly, um, feature?
 
Steve Goodman said:
Something I remember from the early days of Windows 98 - and went away for
no reason I could find - was that the state of the desktop (open windows)
was restored when booting Windows. For example, if you shutdown or rebooted
with Control Panel open, or any other folder, that or those folder(s) would
be where they were when you left off.

When doing the initial installs of Windows 2000, this was the case once
again. Of course, one has to go through so many updates, patches and add-on
installs to make Win2k current (to say nothing of safe!). I found in all
cases here that by the time I was done updating everything, the state-saving
as such had stopped happening.

I'm calling this "Save State" because I remember the terminology from the
pre-Windows days. My apologies if it's called something else. :) So
where'd it go? And is that a fix, or a bug, er, anomaly, um, feature?
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Anyone? [sigh]
 
You could tr

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:0000000

Or, download TweakUI and select "Save Explorer Window Settings" on Explorer tab
 
BG3 said:
You could try

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanc
ed]
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000001

Or, download TweakUI and select "Save Explorer Window Settings" on
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Explorer tab.


Thanks for responding! I was beginning to wonder if I was being seen at
all.

Interesting you recommend TweakUI on this - I've already got that and have
the "Save Explorer Window Settings" on the Explorer tab checked. So THAT
one must have no effect in this regard.

I looked into the above to find no such key as "PersistBrowsers" under
Advanced. And hesitate to add it without a link to some KB or equivalent
article to explain it.
 
Steve said:
I looked into the above to find no such key as "PersistBrowsers" under
Advanced. And hesitate to add it without a link to some KB or equivalent
article to explain it.
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Hi

I can't find anything on the Microsoft Web site, but here is a post from a
Microsoft employee:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...&threadm=pAaDa#[email protected]



and from the Registry Guide for Windows web site:

Restore Folder Windows at Startup
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1222/
 
Torgeir Bakken (MVP) said:
Hi

I can't find anything on the Microsoft Web site, but here is a post from a
Microsoft employee:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...&threadm=pAaDa#[email protected]



and from the Registry Guide for Windows web site:

Restore Folder Windows at Startup
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1222/
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Thanks both of you!

How is it that this entry gets eliminated or flipped during upgrades,
without any interaction on the installer's part? Curious about that. Did
someone decide that such was a feature, or what? In my case, at some point
between the install of Win 2000 Pro and SP4 (inclusive) the key was
eliminated.
 
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