Folder Options not saved in XP

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Cor Besseling

All workstations in our domain are pretty secured. When a
user want to view the files & folders, he may configure
this via the Options menu.

When he want to view allways detailed info, and tries to
Apply this to All Folders, the settings will not be saved.
After closing windows explorer and restarting it alle
settings are returned to the default.

As far as I know there are no policies restricting the
user to apply such settings. The only knowledge base
article remotely close to the problem is 307116. But
doesn't resolve it.

Does anyone have a clue??
 
By default, Windows XP rembers only the view settings for the 400 most
recently used folders. After that, XP will begin overwriting the data of the
oldest folder, and its view setting will be lost.

The information is stored in the registry by two keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam

These keys can be modified so that XP remembers more folder settings.

1. Open Windows Explorer and go to Tools--Folder Options--View Ensure that
"Remember each folder's view settings" is checked.

2. Open Regedit and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell. Right-click
on "Shell", then follow to New--Key--DWORD Value. Name this item "BagMRU
Size" (without quotation marks, but with a space between BagMRU and Size).
Double-click BagMRU Size, give it a Decimal value of 2000, then click OK.

3. Now go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam. Create another
BagMRU Size DWORD Value for "ShellNoRoam". Again, give it a Decimal value of
2000, then click OK.

4. You will have two "BagMRU Size" values equal to 0x000007d0 (2000).

5. Close the registry and reboot.

Windows XP will now remember 2000 folder view settings instead of 400
You could also try higher values if you want to.
 
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