Recycle Bin loses column order (Vista SP1)

[akita]

This is a weird one in Vista SP1 (Ultimate):

Since a few weeks the recycle bin in Windows Explorer consistently loses the
column order that I specify:
File Name | Original Location | Date Deleted | Size - with ‘Date Deleted’
highlighted as sort order.

I have tried to keep a close eye on it to see whether any application in use
(when opened or closed, for example) causes this, but I cannot find any
relations at all. It ‘seems’ to happen randomly, but I suspect that some
Vista or other software component causes the issue.

A few other folders (but no other system folders as yet) also seem to lose
their column orders, apparently randomly and even occasionally within newly
created subfolders.

My customised column order for all and new folders is:
File Name | Size | Type | Date accessed | Date created | Date modified –
some with ‘File Name’ highlighted as the default sort order, others with
‘Date modified’, and a few with ‘Type’.
The only exceptions are folders containing music and image files which are
left at the system column order.

Equally, a fair few, if not most, Control Panel applet windows (for example:
Network and Sharing Centre) consistently change their desktop positions to
some sort of default and away from where I had placed them before.

Clicking the Close button (top right, red) is supposed to tell Vista to keep
the new position and column order, but that definitely is no longer working
for my setup.

All of this has happened around the same time when I noticed the Recycle Bin
issue.

Is there some way to tell Vista to STOP PERMANENTLY reverting to some odd
default column order and/or windows position??

Short of reinstalling the lot – which I really, really don’t want to do due
to the number of applications I’d need to reinstall (not to talk of settings
et al) – I don’t know what to do ...

All help would be much appreciated.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Windows Explorer Folder View settings - Vista Forums:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html

 

[akita]

Windows Explorer Folder View settings - Vista Forums:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html

Thanks Mark, yes this seems to have solved the various folder and windows
positioning issues I described previously.

However, it still has NOT resolved the issue with my RECYCLE BIN, which
keeps losing my custom column order and again defaults to display just the
file name column. Incidentally, same goes for the CD/DVD drive column order
which equally defaults to display just the file name column.

Hmm, weird ...

Any other ideas.

Thanks again for your help and advice.