Vista keeps loosing folder settings

Now and again Vista seems to loose its folder settings. i.e. I have my music
folder with the followng details

Name, Size, Type, Date Modified.

But it has a habit of defaulting back to

Name, Tags, Rating, Artist, Album

This is becoming a pain.

Geo wrote:
> Now and again Vista seems to loose its folder settings. i.e. I have my
> music folder with the followng details
>
> Name, Size, Type, Date Modified.
>
> But it has a habit of defaulting back to
>
> Name, Tags, Rating, Artist, Album
>
> This is becoming a pain.
>

If it's too *loose*, maybe you should tighten it up.

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I experience this as well...very irritating.

Hoping someone posts a real answer to this one.

"Geo" <> wrote in message
news:827BF807-F59A-4CE8-A03E-...
> Now and again Vista seems to loose its folder settings. i.e. I have my
> music folder with the followng details
>
> Name, Size, Type, Date Modified.
>
> But it has a habit of defaulting back to
>
> Name, Tags, Rating, Artist, Album
>
> This is becoming a pain.
>

Me too, I'm searching for an answer. I'm very tired of Vista assuming all my
folders contain music! I'd like a master setting to change all folders. I
never, ever want Album, #, Genre, Rating, etc.

"Susan" wrote:

> I experience this as well...very irritating.
>
> Hoping someone posts a real answer to this one.
>
> "Geo" <> wrote in message
> news:827BF807-F59A-4CE8-A03E-...
> > Now and again Vista seems to loose its folder settings. i.e. I have my
> > music folder with the followng details
> >
> > Name, Size, Type, Date Modified.
> >
> > But it has a habit of defaulting back to
> >
> > Name, Tags, Rating, Artist, Album
> >
> > This is becoming a pain.
> >
>

Please follow the instructions in the second method to remember folder
settings:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...-settings.html
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"Wendy Kelly Budd" <> wrote in
message news:CA563C23-7B53-4922-BB5A-...
> Me too, I'm searching for an answer. I'm very tired of Vista assuming all
> my
> folders contain music! I'd like a master setting to change all folders.
> I
> never, ever want Album, #, Genre, Rating, etc.
>
> "Susan" wrote:
>
>> I experience this as well...very irritating.
>>
>> Hoping someone posts a real answer to this one.
>>
>> "Geo" <> wrote in message
>> news:827BF807-F59A-4CE8-A03E-...
>> > Now and again Vista seems to loose its folder settings. i.e. I have my
>> > music folder with the followng details
>> >
>> > Name, Size, Type, Date Modified.
>> >
>> > But it has a habit of defaulting back to
>> >
>> > Name, Tags, Rating, Artist, Album
>> >
>> > This is becoming a pain.
>> >
>>

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:19:05 -0700, Wendy Kelly Budd
<> wrote:

>Me too, I'm searching for an answer. I'm very tired of Vista assuming all my
>folders contain music! I'd like a master setting to change all folders. I
>never, ever want Album, #, Genre, Rating, etc.

It is a known "feature" or "bug" depending on your view. In short the
design consideration that causes this is Vista trying to help. Most
people instead of thanking the boys of Redmond instead curse them,
because this is just one backward example of Microsoft logic that
mostly frustrates users.

You can have a folder set to show details and have a mixed bag of file
types in it. If you next drop 15 images files into this folder Vista
may "help" by changing the setting to now show thumbnails. Same thing
happens with other file types like dumping in a bunch of songs.

Following explains this issue in more detail and offers a solution. In
true Microsoft fashion since Vista is a over bloated pig with millions
of lines of code fixes have a bad habit on unfixing themselves
depending on what you do later. Since the fix involves tinkering with
the Registry, be sure to set a Restore point first and also make a
backup copy of the Registry.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...0933&SiteID=17

There is a more involved fix that changes the "bags" value. Somebody
posted it awhile back, I forget who. Whoever did, may see this and
respond.

Oops, I just found it:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...-settings.html

Thank you, it works!

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"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> skrev i meddelelsen
news:...
> Please follow the instructions in the second method to remember folder
> settings:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...-settings.html
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "Wendy Kelly Budd" <> wrote in
> message news:CA563C23-7B53-4922-BB5A-...
>> Me too, I'm searching for an answer. I'm very tired of Vista assuming
>> all my
>> folders contain music! I'd like a master setting to change all folders.
>> I
>> never, ever want Album, #, Genre, Rating, etc.
>>
>> "Susan" wrote:
>>
>>> I experience this as well...very irritating.
>>>
>>> Hoping someone posts a real answer to this one.
>>>
>>> "Geo" <> wrote in message
>>> news:827BF807-F59A-4CE8-A03E-...
>>> > Now and again Vista seems to loose its folder settings. i.e. I have my
>>> > music folder with the followng details
>>> >
>>> > Name, Size, Type, Date Modified.
>>> >
>>> > But it has a habit of defaulting back to
>>> >
>>> > Name, Tags, Rating, Artist, Album
>>> >
>>> > This is becoming a pain.
>>> >
>>>
>
>

Will these instructions work for 32 bit Vista? I'm following the
instructions and my View (right click on white area of a folder) doesn't have
Customize. I downloaded the reset_folder_view.reg file & restarted, but
still no change to the right click selections in View. Two hours of reading
& fussing.

I'm having so many problems with Vista visually. Desktop Icons have
changed, Start menu's icon are all jumbled up. The Task bar constantly
moves to under the Start button causing the desktop to become unusable, I
have to do Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up a choice of Restart. I'm the person who
defends Vista to naysayer friends and I'm becoming disillusioned. I'm sorry,
but why is it so hard to set MY preferences for folder view?

Done venting. I have to go to work. I bet it'll be less frustrating.



"Adam Albright" wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:19:05 -0700, Wendy Kelly Budd
> <> wrote:
>
> >Me too, I'm searching for an answer. I'm very tired of Vista assuming all my
> >folders contain music! I'd like a master setting to change all folders. I
> >never, ever want Album, #, Genre, Rating, etc.
>
> It is a known "feature" or "bug" depending on your view. In short the
> design consideration that causes this is Vista trying to help. Most
> people instead of thanking the boys of Redmond instead curse them,
> because this is just one backward example of Microsoft logic that
> mostly frustrates users.
>
> You can have a folder set to show details and have a mixed bag of file
> types in it. If you next drop 15 images files into this folder Vista
> may "help" by changing the setting to now show thumbnails. Same thing
> happens with other file types like dumping in a bunch of songs.
>
> Following explains this issue in more detail and offers a solution. In
> true Microsoft fashion since Vista is a over bloated pig with millions
> of lines of code fixes have a bad habit on unfixing themselves
> depending on what you do later. Since the fix involves tinkering with
> the Registry, be sure to set a Restore point first and also make a
> backup copy of the Registry.
>
> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...0933&SiteID=17
>
> There is a more involved fix that changes the "bags" value. Somebody
> posted it awhile back, I forget who. Whoever did, may see this and
> respond.
>
> Oops, I just found it:
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...-settings.html
>
>

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:59:01 -0700, Wendy Kelly Budd
<> wrote:

>Will these instructions work for 32 bit Vista?

It should. I have 32-bit Vista Business and just tried it and it seems
to work as advertised.

>I'm following the
>instructions and my View (right click on white area of a folder) doesn't have
>Customize. I downloaded the reset_folder_view.reg file & restarted, but
>still no change to the right click selections in View. Two hours of reading
>& fussing.

After downloading you actually ran reset_folder_view.reg so it changes
the Registry? You need to reboot right after.

>I'm having so many problems with Vista visually. Desktop Icons have
>changed, Start menu's icon are all jumbled up. The Task bar constantly
>moves to under the Start button causing the desktop to become unusable, I
>have to do Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up a choice of Restart. I'm the person who
>defends Vista to naysayer friends and I'm becoming disillusioned. I'm sorry,
>but why is it so hard to set MY preferences for folder view?

With all that going on, something else seems messed up. I would next
try a system repair assuming you have a full Vista DVD you can run
that option from.

[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general and
a copy was sent to the cited author.]

In article <CA563C23-7B53-4922-BB5A->,
says...
> Me too, I'm searching for an answer. I'm very tired of Vista assuming all my
> folders contain music! I'd like a master setting to change all folders. I
> never, ever want Album, #, Genre, Rating, etc.

Try some of the information here:
http://tinyurl.com/ywbqeu
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...r-folder-view-
settings.html

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