Folders reverting to default format

[ggull]

Lately it seems that when I open a folder, it often comes up not in the
format (size, choice of 'View') it had before closing but in some kind of
generic size and showing Tiles (never a choice I use!). Not a big deal on
a case by case basis, but it's happening increasingly and often enough to be
a nuisance .. plus it seems a possibly worrisome symptom.

Possibly related -- occasionally when opening a document in Wordpad it will
open in a landscape format, with several inches of blank to the right of the
right margin, rather than the more portrait-shape display with window
squeezed down to the margins that I always adjust it to. This has been
happening sporadically "forever".

 

[VanguardLH]

Lately it seems that when I open a folder, it often comes up not in the
format (size, choice of 'View') it had before closing but in some kind of
generic size and showing Tiles (never a choice I use!). Not a big deal on
a case by case basis, but it's happening increasingly and often enough to be
a nuisance .. plus it seems a possibly worrisome symptom.

Possibly related -- occasionally when opening a document in Wordpad it will
open in a landscape format, with several inches of blank to the right of the
right margin, rather than the more portrait-shape display with window
squeezed down to the margins that I always adjust it to. This has been
happening sporadically "forever".

Get TweakUI from Microsoft's download site, part of the Windows XP Power
Toys suite. In TweakUI, under Explorer -> Customizations, up the value.
I have mine at 8000. The explanation in that screen will let you know
why customizations are being lost.

 

[ggull]

"ggull" wrote

Get TweakUI from Microsoft's download site, part of the Windows XP Power
Toys suite. In TweakUI, under Explorer -> Customizations, up the value.
I have mine at 8000. The explanation in that screen will let you know
why customizations are being lost.

Thanks, I've changed the value (to 8000 also). I'll see how it goes.

OTOH, if I'm reading TweakUI's explanation correctly, this may not be the
problem ... I get the impression it happens as often with the folders /
files I use every day as with something I haven't opened in a week or a
month. I guess I'll go through an orgy of opening and fixing folders, and
see if the syndrome calms down ;-).

 

[ggull]

Thanks, I've changed the value (to 8000 also). I'll see how it goes.

OTOH, if I'm reading TweakUI's explanation correctly, this may not be the
problem ... I get the impression it happens as often with the folders /
files I use every day as with something I haven't opened in a week or a
month. I guess I'll go through an orgy of opening and fixing folders, and
see if the syndrome calms down ;-).

OK, I did this -- changed the value for # of customizations to 8000, then
went through my entire cluttered desktop and opened each folder, adjusted it
to appropriate format (usually details, occasionally thumbnails or icons,
NEVER the what-were-they-thinking default Tiles).

Turned the computer off and a few hours later turn it on ... and many of
those desktop folders are back at the .. yech .. Tiles default. Actually,
most of the folders reverted to Tiles.

Hmm ... I just checked "Folders to remember" in TeakUI, and it's 4000 ...
maybe I did set it to that, know I thought about it. I am here and now
changing to 8000.

This is beginning to sound like the frustrated "StargateFan" in the thread
"Automating details view?" just a few after this one. The more I think of
it this loss of customization may be an effect of shutdown/startup cycle, as
his is.

But why should we need such a huge limit on customizations as 8000 or even
4000? I certainly have nowhere near that number that I customize ... a few
dozen at most, maybe a few hundred if you count sub-sub-folders not visited
in a long time.