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nevada_larry
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With 2 TB :0 - If you have that many folders Windows may not remember all the folder settings. After a while, it may switch back to the default (of large icons - tiles).

Originally, by default, Windows was designed to remember 400 different folder settings (200 local folders and 200 network folders, for a total of 400 folders). It will start to re-use these stored settings on a 'Most Recently Used' basis, once the folder limit has been exceeded.

This was fixed in Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which sets the value for BagMRU Size to 5000.

However if you want to increase the number of folder settings Windows remembers beyond 5,000 :-

Start the Registry Editor

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Shell \

1 Find DWORD Value - BagMRU Size

2 Double-click the BagMRU Size value, and set the Base to Decimal

3 Now in the Value data field enter the number of folders for which Windows should remember the settings (I'd suggest 10,000 or more)

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ ShellNoRoam \

Repeat steps 1-3

Close the registry editor

Restart Windows.

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