Vista Won’t Remember My Folder Views

*** Update ***
This fix is no longer valid. After a month of smooth sail­ing, we’re back to the same prob­lem. To our knowl­edge, there is cur­rently no fix that lasts longer than a month. This fix will last at least that long, but you’ll be back to the same prob­lem a month later. If you’ve tried some­thing that seems to show promise, please let us know with a com­ment. Thanks for reading.

Vista has made huge strides in becom­ing a bet­ter OS. If you’ve read any­thing we’ve writ­ten to date about Vista, it’s all bad. But since the release of Ser­vice Pack 1 and 2, Vista has really come into its own. Rarely do you see the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. This due to Vista’s abil­ity to selec­tively shut down and restart ser­vices before caus­ing crit­i­cal errors. The user inter­face is beau­ti­ful and some­what famil­iar to XP users. The abil­ity of Vista to repair itself has made leaps and bounds. But there is still one thing that is an absolute annoy­ance and frus­tra­tion, and that is Vista’s abil­ity to remem­ber folder views.

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Jul 10, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Windows Vista | Leave A Comment »

How Do I Re-enable Ballon Tips?

To Enable The Noti­fi­ca­tion Area Bal­loon Tips

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

2. Nav­i­gate to the fol­low­ing sub­key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

3. Right-click the right pane, cre­ate a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.

4. Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexa­dec­i­mal value of 1. ( 1 Enables Bal­loon Tips, and 0 Dis­ables Bal­loon Tips )

5. Quit Reg­istry Edi­tor. Log off Win­dows, and then log back on.

These steps enable all Noti­fi­ca­tion Area bal­loon tips for this user. There is no way to dis­able bal­loon tips for spe­cific pro­grams only.

Nov 22, 2008 | Computer Repair and Networks | 2 Comments »