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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This fix is no longer valid.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.

You can change a folder view, close the win­dow, reopen the same folder and sud­denly your files and fold­ers are cat­e­go­rized by year, genre, rat­ing, and any other num­ber of tags. If you’ve come across this post through Google, then I’m sure you’re hav­ing the exact same issue, and I’m sure you’ve already tried a few fixes that sounded good, but didn’t work. Well we’ve found a work­ing fix, and we’re shar­ing it.

We’ve tested this on Vista 32 bit and 64 bit, as well as no ser­vice pack, sp1, and sp2. In all instances it works. Sim­ply down­load the file, run it, and restart your com­puter. That’s it. So what are you wait­ing for, give it a try, and let us know if it worked for you.

Down­load Link

Or copy the fol­low­ing text into your note pad, and name it vista-folders.reg Or some­thing sim­i­lar, what mat­ters is the .reg file extension.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
; Reset and delete all saved folder customizations and settings.
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]
 
; Turn off Vista auto folder type template discovery.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified"
 
; Modify the storage space to 10000 for saving of up to 10000 folder settings.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:00002710