Extended Tiles - broken - any fix?

The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but
the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard
disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera.

My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not.

I love this view! Halp!

Actually, if you look again, you may be the one with the choice for Extended
Tiles, and your wife's View menu just lists Tiles. Your view of Computer is
a corruption of the Computer view's folder template. There are only a small
number of windows that offer Extended Tiles; Control Panel\Manage Wireless
Networks and Control Panel\Sync Center are a couple that I can think of.
Otherwise, in Explorer windows, the look is quite goofy (I think it has some
oblique mention of Offline Files, or something, either in the tile icon
itself, or in the Details pane).

Once your folder views start this sort of corruption, it gets worse from
there. (For example, I've had the Windows folder using a Music Details
template, which can't be changed using Customize, because that tab isn't
available in the Windows folder's Properties, the "Uninstall or Change a
Program" Control Panel using the Contacts folder template (with Import and
Export [contacts] in the Toolbar), just to name a couple of my own folder
view glitches, not to mention the odd Extended Tiles View in Explorer
folders.

Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders. That being said, deleting the
following two keys in the registry, will give you a clean slate, and reset
your folders to the defaults. (All remembered folder settings in Windows
Explorer for view state, window position, sort order, column information,
folder type, toolbar toggles, and search result views will be lost, just so
you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will
also be deleted). The keys in Vista are:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU

(right-click on the key BagMRU, in the left pane, and choose delete)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags

(right-click on the key Bags, in the left pane, and choose delete)

Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done
automatically), and start anew.


"Michael Hainsworth" <MichaelHainsworth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:239B283D-A98D-4237-BC79-BD663C72FB43@microsoft.com...
> The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does,
> but
> the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard
> disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera.
>
> My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does
> not.
>
> I love this view! Halp!

Thanks! Worked like a charm.

"dean-dean" wrote:

> Actually, if you look again, you may be the one with the choice for Extended
> Tiles, and your wife's View menu just lists Tiles. Your view of Computer is
> a corruption of the Computer view's folder template. There are only a small
> number of windows that offer Extended Tiles; Control Panel\Manage Wireless
> Networks and Control Panel\Sync Center are a couple that I can think of.
> Otherwise, in Explorer windows, the look is quite goofy (I think it has some
> oblique mention of Offline Files, or something, either in the tile icon
> itself, or in the Details pane).
>
> Once your folder views start this sort of corruption, it gets worse from
> there. (For example, I've had the Windows folder using a Music Details
> template, which can't be changed using Customize, because that tab isn't
> available in the Windows folder's Properties, the "Uninstall or Change a
> Program" Control Panel using the Contacts folder template (with Import and
> Export [contacts] in the Toolbar), just to name a couple of my own folder
> view glitches, not to mention the odd Extended Tiles View in Explorer
> folders.
>
> Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders. That being said, deleting the
> following two keys in the registry, will give you a clean slate, and reset
> your folders to the defaults. (All remembered folder settings in Windows
> Explorer for view state, window position, sort order, column information,
> folder type, toolbar toggles, and search result views will be lost, just so
> you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will
> also be deleted). The keys in Vista are:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
> Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU
>
> (right-click on the key BagMRU, in the left pane, and choose delete)
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
> Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags
>
> (right-click on the key Bags, in the left pane, and choose delete)
>
> Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done
> automatically), and start anew.
>
>
> "Michael Hainsworth" <MichaelHainsworth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:239B283D-A98D-4237-BC79-BD663C72FB43@microsoft.com...
> > The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does,
> > but
> > the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard
> > disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera.
> >
> > My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does
> > not.
> >
> > I love this view! Halp!
>
>

This did not work for me. I tried it several times, and even rebooted. I had this problem a few days ago, and managed to get it to go away for a day. Not sure what I did, but I thought going to Tools->Folder Options and clicking "Restore Defaults" on every tab is what fixed it. However, the problem came back and I can't get it to go away by "Restore Defaults" or deleting said registry keys.... Any ideas?

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"GreenieLeBrun" <GreenieLeBrun@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Deleting the specified Registry keys did not work for me. I still don't see the disk space bars in explorer when viewing the hard disks, etc. The "Computer" view in Explorer has an "Extended Tiles" view available -- a corruption according to the post I am replying to.

I even tried this:
1. boot into safe mode
2. In regedit, I searched for "BagMRU" and deleted all instances of it until running a registry search for "BagMRU" turned up no results. And whenever I found a key next to "BagMRU" named "Bags", I deleted it, too.
3. logged off and back on.

I've searched and searched on the internet, and everyone seems to get this problem fixed by deleting these registry keys.... but doing so didn't fix it for me.

Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks.