Folder Settings won't Stick

[BJH]

Hi all

Now I've spent a lot of time trying to bottom this one without success.

I can change the folder view settings to my preferred choices by pressing
the "Restore Defaults" button in the Folder Options dialog and all the
settings will revert correctly.

But these settings don't stick. At a random time interval (and I've
observed this) the desktop 'appears' to redraw itself and all the settings
have changed back to how they were prior to restoring my defaults. In my
case showing the file extensions and viewing hidden and system files.

I've been down the BagMRU settings road (currently 8000) and
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000

But these registry entries don't seem to help my problem.

It seems to me that there must be a registry entry somewhere that contains
the settings I DON'T want and every so often these entries are rewritten.

If I could find what this is I could change it to the values I want and it
can rewrite forever then, if that's what turns it on!

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

 

[BJH]

Now I've spent a lot of time trying to bottom this one without
success.

I can change the folder view settings to my preferred choices by
pressing the "Restore Defaults" button in the Folder Options dialog
and all the settings will revert correctly.

But these settings don't stick. At a random time interval (and I've
observed this) the desktop 'appears' to redraw itself and all the
settings have changed back to how they were prior to restoring my
defaults. In my case showing the file extensions and viewing hidden
and system files.

OK, if anyone is interested I got to the bottom of this eventually.

It was my Fax Program, SnappyFax v3.59. I've been in contact with the
developer and he was most helpful, he acknowledged that the program
did change the registry keys in question when it started and he has
agreed to put things back and not change the existing settings for
the registry keys.

The three keys were:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\\Hidden
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\\HideFileExt
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\\SuperHidden

So, mystery solved.