Remember system settings

Hello all,

In Windows XP, when I shut down my PC, Windows remembers things like the
fact that I have opened Windows Explorer and which directory I was current
in, etc.

I'm new to Windows Vista and it seemed that after shutdown, Vista remembers
nothing about the activities of my previous session. Also some of my Windows
customisation like closing the dock was not being remembered.

Is that a way to tell Vista to remember all this activity/system setting
that I set?

Thanx in advance

L & L

Your user profile may have been corrupted in some way. I suggest creating a
new account in the User Accounts app in Control Panel, and copying the data
over from the old one. This article was written for XP, but Vista uses the
same technique.

811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;811151

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"LiveAndLearn" <> wrote in message
news:4B563F3C-99B3-4D0F-87F9-...
> Hello all,
>
> In Windows XP, when I shut down my PC, Windows remembers things like the
> fact that I have opened Windows Explorer and which directory I was current
> in, etc.
>
> I'm new to Windows Vista and it seemed that after shutdown, Vista
> remembers
> nothing about the activities of my previous session. Also some of my
> Windows
> customisation like closing the dock was not being remembered.
>
> Is that a way to tell Vista to remember all this activity/system setting
> that I set?
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> L & L

Thanx for replying.

Could it be something else other then profile corruption?

It's a brand new PC out of the box 3 hours ago...





"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> Your user profile may have been corrupted in some way. I suggest creating a
> new account in the User Accounts app in Control Panel, and copying the data
> over from the old one. This article was written for XP, but Vista uses the
> same technique.
>
> 811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;811151
>
> --
> Please use the Communities guidelines when posting.
> http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm
> Use the "Ratings" feature. It helps the new users.
> Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
>
> "LiveAndLearn" <> wrote in message
> news:4B563F3C-99B3-4D0F-87F9-...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > In Windows XP, when I shut down my PC, Windows remembers things like the
> > fact that I have opened Windows Explorer and which directory I was current
> > in, etc.
> >
> > I'm new to Windows Vista and it seemed that after shutdown, Vista
> > remembers
> > nothing about the activities of my previous session. Also some of my
> > Windows
> > customisation like closing the dock was not being remembered.
> >
> > Is that a way to tell Vista to remember all this activity/system setting
> > that I set?
> >
> > Thanx in advance
> >
> > L & L
>
>

Hi,

XP didn't do that unless it was set to, and the same setting exists in
Vista. Click the start orb and type "control folders" into the search line.
Hit <enter> to open folder options and go to the second (view) tab. Scroll
down the list and enable the line to "restore previous folder windows at
logon", click apply/ok.

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"LiveAndLearn" <> wrote in message
news:4B563F3C-99B3-4D0F-87F9-...
> Hello all,
>
> In Windows XP, when I shut down my PC, Windows remembers things like the
> fact that I have opened Windows Explorer and which directory I was current
> in, etc.
>
> I'm new to Windows Vista and it seemed that after shutdown, Vista
> remembers
> nothing about the activities of my previous session. Also some of my
> Windows
> customisation like closing the dock was not being remembered.
>
> Is that a way to tell Vista to remember all this activity/system setting
> that I set?
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> L & L