Windows Explorer Folder View settings

Your welcome gbp007.

You can always bump it up some later if you ever need to.

Shawn

Hi everyone,

I always open specific folders directly from the run box, so trying to make every single one remember its window size was too impractical for me.

But I think (hopefully!) I found a solution. I managed to set the default window size with the registry entries below.

Obviously, you need to change the values to suit you, and the resolution to match your system. Also, I'm not sure if that guid value is system specific - I found it by watching the registry activity. Lastly, I don't know what the WFlags parameter does, but it didn't seem to work without it.

In any case, it's working nicely for me now, hopefully this helps some people

And thanks for the great tutorial, I wouldn't have found this without it
David

Your welcome C0nfuzed,

Welcome to the forum.

This is a nice tip. Thank you.

Shawn

Hi all, first post.

I have tried all suggestions to get Vista to remember folder views but in most cases the changes undo themselves time and time again.

Getting really fed up with this annoying bug, I hope MS will fix this in SP1, are they even aware of the issue. Unfortunately I can't tell them about it becuase I am using an OEM copy of Vista but no reply in the official newsgroups has come back from them to acknowledge what is a very frustrating issue.

I don't know how you guys are managing to keep the settings from changing but on my 2 Vista boxes, one is x86 and the other x64 it just reverts.

Using the latest .reg file in this thread I reset all my settings and set my music folder and all subfolders to be music details. I reaccess the folder a short time later to find that the root of the music folder appeared to reset to All Items view but on and displayed the fields for that view but the customise tab still stated it was a Music Details folder, all sub folders still held the music details view, I am foxed by this issue.

I've been tempted several timesto revert to XP.

Any more suggestions welcome.

Hi Boab2791,

Welcome to the forum.

If you used the download option in Method Two, then it should set it so Vista will remember your settings. Make sure that you make the changes and close the window to save the settings. This way the window should open the exact same way as it was when you last closed it.

Check to see if you may have some 3rd party utility program setting turned on that is set to clear the windows size/location (folder view) cache. I noticed that CCleaner has a option for this.

Shawn

Thanks for the welcome.

I dont have any 3rd Party Cleaners installed, you say close the window once you have modified any settings, perhaps thats where I am going wrong. I just use the back button to go back to root and into another folder. Surely the act of leaving a folder is enough to save the view. I dont care about the size of the window but what really gets on my goat is the folder details changing all the time.

I will try your suggestion of closing windows down and see but that won't go down well with my dad, he keeps blowing a gasket every time Vista does this to him. I think on his PC at least I will be going back to XP until we know this issue is resolved.

Are you aware if MS are actually aware of this horrendous bug. I also increased the cache size from 20000 to 50000 to see if it helped.

Boab2791,

I would think that MS would be aware of this. Hopefully.

Just to be clear, only close the open Explorer window after making changes to it to save it, not Vista itself.

Shawn

Updated 11-14-2007 to include a way to set a default folder type template for all folder types. See step 20 above.

Shawn

I followed the instructions completely right down to increasing the Folder View Cach Memory. It was a bit confusing because in the first section you are told to delete BagMRU and all it's subfolders, then in the next section, steps 10-20, it is there again. However, that being said, I did everything and rebooted and then changed my folders to how I wanted them to display all the time, which is the List View. I clicked on apply from the My computer folder and then from the Documents folder which then opened up next in the Tiles view I changed that to List and clicked Apply to All Folders, which was greyed out from the My Computer folder view. However, none of this made any difference. Everything is still opening up in it's own preprogrammed way. And yes, Remember each folders settings is clicked.

Hi Chunnel,

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry about the confusion for steps 10-20. I updated the screenshots to better reflect the instructions.

I updated steps 25 on to help better with your problem on List.

You might do the download option instead of the manual. It will be easier and no worries about entering a incorrect entry.

Let me know if you need more help.

Shawn