midnightrambler Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 I have a frustrating problem with Windows XP's way of handling individual folder settings.Try this: create a new folder, open it and note the default folder settings. now change the view, move some columns around and stuff like that... close the folder. each time you open the folder again you expect the settings for this folder to be like you configured it... i did too before i was taught otherwise... now move the folder to another location and/or rename it, then open it again. woohoo, now your settings are gone and the default settings have been applied again. but how you ask?? well, rename the folder to its original name and move it to its original location and now open it again... what do you see? right, your settings are back again ...but that's total crap, because no modern OS would behave that way, but then again, it's windows ...as i got to know from another forum, windows xp saves the names of the folders and their paths in the registry, together with their individual settings ...now this obviously is not good, because you always get frustrated when realizing the lost settings and have to apply them again, consuming your precious time and making yourself more work than you already havethe only way to prevent the loss of specific folder settings is to restrain from moving or renaming these folders... now eat that!so to all you people out there:1. is there a solution to this problem?2. would (could) someone program a utility that constantly runs in the background and updates the registry as soon as a folder with its settings is moved or renamed? (unfortunately i am not a programmer) if someone would program a solution to the problem, i may well be willing to pay for it.3. how can i contact microsoft so that i really get their attention on this matter? will this problem be part of longhorn too? if so, too bad ...i would be very (!!) grateful for your help, since i currently consider xp's feature of applying individual folder settings as more or less useless, seeing that i very often need to rename or move folders... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 yes I had a similar prob like that when I added a slave drive it kept losing my applied settings,in my case though it was changing all the folders to video folders had to keep going in tools.folder options,view and resetting them again and again,sort of got it sorted but its not perfect is it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 I don't like it either. You select how you want a folder to appear etc and it resorts back to what it wants. Even 'My Computer' has to be changed for the layout at time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 If I have read the question correctly, I believe that there is something about this sort of problem in this months P.C.A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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