Richard Urban

Re-reading your original post I think that the folder view is just a result
of a more serious problem. Have you had this from the beginning - from the
first time you used Vista? Did Vista come on a new computer or did you
upgrade an older computer?

The fact that your root folders are changing their folder types worries me a
bit. If it were me, I would go back to a system image that I previously
created at a known good system state. But, many people do not image their
computers.

If I did not have an older good image to go back to, I would reinstall my
operating system from scratch.

This is all assuming that your hardware is up to snuff - RAM, CPU, video
etc.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

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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> Nope. All I've actually done is shutdown yesterday and start it up today.
> Sometimes they change without even doing that. I come back to a folder I
> was looking at earlier in the day, and it has a different view.
>
> Antivirus software is Avast! 4.7 Home (I doubt that's relevant, but just
> in case). All other such software (firewall, defender etc) is the built-in
> Windows utilities. I don't have any third-party cleanup utilities
> installed, so unless Windows is automatically running something built-in,
> it's not happening.
>
> Looking at Task Scheduler, there is an "LPRemove" task. I'm not sure what
> it removes, as there is no description given, but it does seem to be run
> several times each day. Author is listed as Microsoft Corporation.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
>
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> 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
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>> 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
>> news:uaN973nfHHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> 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.