Richard Urban

Are you using any "system cleaner" such as CCleaner in the interim? If so.
you may be deleting the saved settings.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Mark Bourne" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Using Explorer on Windows Vista Business, I've noticed that the folder
> view settings keep randomly changing.
>
> For example, one folder yesterday was set to "Details" view. Today, I
> opened the folder and it is in "Tiles" view. The main "Computer" view
> yesterday was "Tiles", grouped by drive type, today it is in "List view
> and not grouped. I have also had some folders even randomly changing type
> ("All Items", "Pictures and Videos", "Music Icons" etc.) This was
> particularly annoying when it decided that the root of the C: drive was a
> music folder, as there is no option to "Customise" this folder and put it
> back to "All Items"!
>
> I don't do anything to change the view of these folders, nor anything
> which would affect the view of all folders (ie. clicking "Apply to
> Folders" in the folder options).
>
> Does anyone know why this happens, and what I can do to stop it happening?
> I understand there are some registry keys which control this, but I don't
> see why they would keep randomly changing like this.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.