Is there anyone out there with enough programming skill to determine the following:

1. what's wrong with XP-SP1's folder option command
2. why will it not hold my folder view option
3. this was an issue that was supposed to have been cleared up with XP-SP2
4. it was not
5. all suggestions on the internet have been tried...yes, set to 8000!!!
6. so who out there is up to the task?
7. just tell me where and what to do
8. I am not afraid of the registry

when you say folder view are you refering to the tile option, which on my computer will seperate the drive types?
You should be able to reset all your folders to the same view fairly easily, it's supposed to work in any folder, but i've found it holds better if you use the my comp location.
simply set it to the style you like, sometimes you have to switch away from tile and then back to get the little lines between drive types, not sure why on that one. Once you are satisfied:
click tools, then view tab and select the button at the top labelled apply to all folders. This should work better than selecting the style for individual folders. If you wish to have some folders open differently you can then change them afterwards but in general the default will be the style you set.

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

Nice try, but no cigar...but that's o.k.

When I log on, it goes immediately to "Tiles" view. I don't want Tiles, I want "Details." I've been working on this for months, along with others, so don't consider me a newbie, or that you have missed something. Bigger minds then ours have failed and given up ...even Microsoft! They lied when they said that XP-SP2 would solve the problem...nope, it didn't!!!

I just thought that I'd give you guys a chance to spread your wings on a real problem that has plagued a very large number of people...hundreds... It is a well documented problem on the net. You'd probably get a nobel prize if you could solve this one. I'm not a programmer, so I'm up a stump. I just test progs.

Some have even gone so far as to say it is "file-fatigue" [as if] ...i.e. XP's files get so worn out that they just fail to cooperate in tight corners...illogical!

This is a save-settings function that is supposed to hold when you shut down...i.e. your settings get saved. But between shut down and start up, the command disappears...or it is not getting saved on shutdown, as it says it is doing.

I believe "we" need a command to over-ride whatever is going on at the "save your settings" point on shut-down...to bring "it" back in line with what should be happening.

Part of the issue also, is that the icons in the Task Bar, sometimes move about randomly...they sometimes default to an alphabetical arrangement, after I put them in an "as used" arrangement...so I can go to them quickly and blindly at times.

It's damn annoying when you get your settings just so, then you come back to find that you have to reset them.

i will look into it, because i run both my laptop and desktop with details on all folders, there must be something causing the interference

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

Thanks, but don't hold your breath for a solution. Visit our discussion over at geekstogo.com... [apologies for mentioning the competition]

This is going to take someone who is a programmer and is serious about wanting to crack this nut...they might even qualify for a MS job

How can I hold XP's folder options? - Geeks to Go!

As you an see there were 870 interested parties in this topic...so it was a major pain for a lot of users... And I have been working toward a solution since Janurary!

Topic: How can I hold XP's folder options?
folder options won't hold any more...what's up...?
Windows XP, 2000, 2003, NT
b1caez01...59...870
11th January 2007 - 04:32 PM
Last post by: b1caez01

there may be a solution, not sure what you're tried so far, this should reset the registry to save the settings again, by deleting the following 2 registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\BagMRU
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\Bags

then set your folders as you want them.
-let me know if that does anything, if not i'll keep looking. I am a long time coder, and the registry is one of my favorite places to tamper w/ XP

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

Been there, done that...as they say... As I said, I have been working on this for months, and there is little that I have not tried, from an actual non-programmer's point of view. I have been up and down both sides of the internet and on a bunch of fora...no one has been able to crack it. The bag solution refers to the resetting of the number of folders XP can supervise to between 5000 and 8000...that has no affect on this issue.

I am confident, that it is an issue with one of two commands:

1. the command that installs the appropriate registry entry at the point of saving the setting in the first place...and provides for that command to be saved during and after each session...or...

2. the command that installs the complete system settings config for saving all commands, at shutdown...

One or the other is not following through with what it is supposed to do, at the time it is supposed to do it; or, for some reason, it is, but is not holding that in the registry after the fact.

The least little system upset, often will knock the setting off as well...ie. you get it set up and then you run into a problem with something else, then you go back to opening another folder, and ta da, you are back into the default tiles setting as opposed to the details setting that you just set up at the beginning of the session...

I am an obsessive, and this sort of nonsense drives me around the bend

that is possible the easiest way may be to remove the save setting, thus setting it up once and that's it

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

How does one remove the "save-settings" command from the registry?

Will that key affect any other functions?

If the command is deleted, then how will it go about saving what has been set up as the needed save settings? Something has to tell it to save "whatever." If the command is gone, then nothing will happen.