Adam Albright

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:43:46 +0100, Mark Bourne
<Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>> This is all assuming that your hardware is up to snuff - RAM, CPU, video
>> etc.
>>
>I'd hope so, since it's a new computer. Although there's always the
>possibility of a problem. I'll contact the manufacturer if this could be
>a sign of hardware problem.

How folders display their contents has NOTHING to do with your RAM or
CPU, that's absurd for anyone to suggest that.

Have you gone to Control Panel, Folder Options and under the View tab
checked to be sure "Remember each folder's view settings" is checked?

For what it is worth over the years I've seen Windows' Explorer do all
kinds of goofy things including change folder settings on it's own for
no apparant reason. Now it has learned a new trick in Vista. In spite
of me setting things up to show some special details you can pick
under more... it will sometimes "forget" to show these added
categories.

Worse, I set up a single "download" folder that's not on my root
drive. This is the place anything I download or get sent to me first
ends up. So this folder can contain simple text files, PDF files, Word
documents, spreadsheets, still images of every possible file type, Mp3
files, video files, attachments, anything. I have this file set to
show details. Normally it sticks. However if I clean this folder out
so nothing remains as I do daily moving or discarding files to their
more appropriate place, if I then happen to receive or download some
files of a type that Windows normally likes to set up a different
folder view with by default it sometimes, but not always, will change
the view to show thumbnails overriding my details setting, if for
example if all that's left in the folder is 4 or 5 still images. Makes
no sense why. Most likely just another yet unfixed Windows bug.