Windows explorer view custom format lost

[John L]

Win XP Prop SP3

D drive partition, 150GB with 16GB used.

My friend stores his digital pictures on a second, D Drive. He has a custom
way to dispkay them in the windows explorer folder:

Thumbnails
Align to Grid
Name

Each set of photos starts with the same first characters, e.g. john
birthday - xxx

What he did was"click & drag" sections to open up "white space" between
groupings. This worked just fine for a long period of time. But after 9/15,
windows exlorer bunched all pictures together by name.

It takes a long time to create the "white space" formatting. If he
re-arranges the pictures, how can he set the spacing between groups.

I know this is a custom use of windows explorer.

THX

 

[Jean Rosenfeld]

By default Windows Explorer does not always remember folder views beyond 400
folders. To fix this, change the data for the 'BagMRU Size' value in the
registry at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
and at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam

I have set mine to 5000 (decimal)

Or, if you prefer, download the tweaks from Kelly's corner
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
click on F in the alphabet, scroll down to Folder Views Keep settings.
Double click on the downloaded file (Increase Folder View options) to effect
the change in the registry.

Note: someone may suggest using TweakUI, but unfortunately there is a bug
and that particular tweak does not work properly, as it has misspelt the
value name.