Nifty Registry Tweak(s)

DOOManiac

<div class="IPBDescription">Fix some annoying WinXP things...</div>These tweaks are w/ WinXP in mind, so try them on non-XP OS's at your own risk.

<a href='http://home.tiscali.nl/rogier666/windows/wintricks.html' target='_blank'>clickity</a>

The one I like the most is this:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Remember more folder view settings </b>
Windows often forgets folder view settings. There's no way to fix it, but you can improve things a litle bit:
1) Tools/Folder Options/View/Advanced Settings/Remember each folder's view settings.
2) Edit HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell. Right-click "Shell", New/Key/DWORD/Value, name BagMRU Size, Decimal value 2000
3) Edit HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam. Right-click "ShellNoRoam", New/Key/DWORD/Value, name BagMRU Size, Decimal value 2000
XP will now remember 2000 folder view settings instead of 400.
However, windows has a life of it's own and will often change your settings anyway.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Woo, now maybe w/ the increased cache size windows sill stop being a dink and keep my stuff in List view... :X

Monkfish

godam i hate it changing the view of folders , nice find doom <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

DiscoZombie

details view > list view

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DOOManiac

well doesn't it forget that too?

Monkfish

Yes. yes it does

DiscoZombie

yes, I was just being obnoxious <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> thanks for the helpful hint :>

Liku

<!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Feb 26 2004, 07:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Feb 26 2004, 07:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> well doesn't it forget that too? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not my WinXP, never has, and I hope it never will.

Sniper_Chance

This is quite a feat.

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cshank4

<!--QuoteBegin-$niper Chance+Feb 26 2004, 11:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ($niper Chance @ Feb 26 2004, 11:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> This is quite a feat.

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Rofl, did the same thing to mine after the AT&T guys changed our old computer (there softwware to get the internet runnin (drivers for modems and crap) changed the registry to say Internet Explorer - Provided by AT&T) I changed it to AT&T Can kiss my arse... boy you shoulda seen the look ont he technicians face when he checked our comp after we lost service <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Trent_Hawkins

You should have had a camera ready...

anyway... in responce to the original post: I did that a couple years ago, it works ok, although it still refuses to remember the folder settings on my desktop for more than a day, and once a week it likes to change a random folder to default view.