=====================================The thumbnails that are displayed to represent specific
folders eventually get changed but not by me. They often
get changed to pictures that are not even in the
respective folder! Also the attributes for music or
photos gets reset.
Can this be fixed?
=================================a said:John,
TweakUI v2.10 for XP sets an incorrect Bags registry
entry, so that will have no effect.
Better to use Bags8000.Reg from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
========================================a said:Then you must be using an unofficially patched version of
TweakUI v2.10 for XP. If so, if you change your setting
from 5000 to 5, then you would lose your folder
customizations in a very short time.
Look at...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam
"BagMRU Size" is the correct value name.
"Bag MRU Size" is the value name incorrectly generated
and changed by TweakUI v2.10 for XP.
Using the official TweakUI v2.10 for XP to set
"Folders to remember" will have no effect.
==================a said:That website also has a download for Tweak UI for
Itanium-based systems [TweakUIPowertoySetup_ia64.exe].
I am running XP Pro SP1 on a 32-bit x86.
I have just downloaded TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe, but it is
identical to the file which I had previously downloaded
and installed.
My TweakUI v2.10 never changes my "BagMRU Size" value.
It only generates and changes the "Bag MRU Size", which
has no effect.
====================================a said:SP2 could be the key here.
Would you mind using TweakUI to increase "Folders to
remember" from 5000 to 5001 and seeing which of the
values change to 5001?
TweakUI
Explorer
Customizations
Folders to remember
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
\Shell and \ShellNoRoam
"BagMRU Size" and "Bag MRU Size"
a nonymous said:| I have two computers.
| One was on SP1, upgraded to SP2. SP2 did not change the 400 default. I did
| the change with Tweak UI to 5000 about one month ago, after taking SP2. No
| problem, it is still on 5000.
|
| One is still on SP1. I did the change with TweakUI to 5000 about two years
| ago. It did revert to 400 at some point (I don't know exactly when, but
| there was no system restore on this computer) and I changed it again to 5000
| after this, probably 6 months ago. It is still on 5000.
|
| However, I do not believe this is the problem from the OP for changing the
| pictures in the thumbnail of a folder. XP loads 4 pictures for the thumbnail
| of a picture folder, but these will change as you add, remove or change the
| order of the pictures in the folder. The only sure way is to select one
| picture to be in the thumbnail.
Yves,
All the technical details are in:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813711
Your view settings or customizations for a folder are lost or incorrect
Only the data in 'BagMRU Size' is relevant.
My input to this thread was about the use of TweakUI v2.10 to change the
number of "Folders to remember" being ineffective because TweakUI operates
on an incorrect value name in the registry.
This bug in TweakUI was confirmed by the author of TweakUI,
Raymond Chen [MSFT], in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize, last year.
He apologised for not having the time to correct that bug,
which remains even today.
Earlier in this thread, I wrote:
| > SP2 could be the key here.
| > something other than TweakUI had changed (John's) "BagMRU Size" to 5000.
Quoting from KB 813711, "To work around this problem, create a 'BagMRU Size'
DWORD value .., and then set the value data for both values to the number of
folders that you want Windows to remember the settings for. For example,...
set both values to 5000."
-and-
"STATUS This problem was first corrected in XP Service Pack 2."
I suspect that SP2 has a default value of 5000 for "BagMRU Size".
Unfortunately, TweakUI v2.10 creates/modifies "Bag MRU Size", which has no
effect on the number of folders to remember.
At least two years ago, MVP Kelly Theriot made available Bags8000.Reg
on line 2 of her website at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
This allows you to change "BagMRU Size" to 8000, without manaully editing
the registry.
| > | a nonymous wrote:
| > | > SP2 could be the key here.
|
| > | > Would you mind using TweakUI to increase "Folders to
| > | > remember" from 5000 to 5001 and seeing which of the
| > | > values change to 5001?
|
| > | > TweakUI
| > | > Explorer
| > | > Customizations
| > | > Folders to remember
|
| > | > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
| > | > \Shell and \ShellNoRoam
| > | > "BagMRU Size" and "Bag MRU Size"
| > "John Inzer" wrote:
| > | Bag MRU Size
| a nonymous wrote:
| > So, something other than TweakUI had changed your
| > "BagMRU Size" to 5000.
Yves said:I understand what you are saying, but Tweak UI does work!
What more can I tell you. It has nothing to do with SP2. I know from
experience on my SP2 computer vs my SP1 computer. The idea that SP2
corrected this problem is incorrect. It did not. However, I am open to
listen as to how SP2 corrected this problem. Send the documentation.
a said:| That feature doesn't work in Tweak UI - one of it's bugs.
Rock,
Which other bugs in TweakUI v2.10 are you aware of?
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