Properties won't stay put

[Johnny Schmitt]

This is driving me crazy. About every three or four days, after booting up
my computer, my personal "theme" for my desktop reverts back to XP standard
stuff. I change the size of my icons, use a "classic" theme of maple
coloring, and other little personal tweaks. When I least suspect it, after
booting up, everything changes back again.

I have NAV, Webroot Spysweeper, spybot, and Ad-Aware all installed. After
running them and getting a clean bill of health, my problem still exists. A
few days the problem included re-arranging the icons on the bottom half of
my desktop without changing those on the top half?

I am running WinXP Media Center Edition, SP3 on a 2.3 GHz Pentium with 3 gb
memory and more than 150 gb of free room on the hard drive.

 

[jimbo571]

This is driving me crazy. About every three or four days, after booting up
my computer, my personal "theme" for my desktop reverts back to XP standard
stuff. I change the size of my icons, use a "classic" theme of maple
coloring, and other little personal tweaks. When I least suspect it, after
booting up, everything changes back again.

I have NAV, Webroot Spysweeper, spybot, and Ad-Aware all installed. After
running them and getting a clean bill of health, my problem still exists. A
few days the problem included re-arranging the icons on the bottom half of
my desktop without changing those on the top half?

I am running WinXP Media Center Edition, SP3 on a 2.3 GHz Pentium with 3 gb
memory and more than 150 gb of free room on the hard drive.

Software you`ve d/l in the past that is still working ?

 

[Rey Santos]

Try this:

In the registry navigate to the following keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program
Manager\Restrictions

In the right pane look for the name NoSaveSettings, if its data value is 1
change it 0. (double click to change)

 

[Johnny Schmitt]

I tried checking the reg keys and the only one that had "noSave Settings"
was the last one you listed, but it was already a value of "0".

This time my computer went five days without a mess up, but this morning
when I turned it on,...Boom, it had changed back again.

Johnny

 

[Rey Santos]

Delete NoSaveSettings and see what happens. It is disabled anyway. Backup the
key to be safe.