You have treasured photos of your children at their most cute,and you like to see them displayed as thumbnails in your folders. You go through your folders one by one and set them all to thumbnails. Some time later you return and.....Filmstrip???. Sound familiar? Despair no more frustrated reader,here is the solution.
Open Control panel and select Folder Options. Select the view tab and check the box next to Remember each folder's view settings. You may think your work is done here,but,alas this is Windows we are dealing with here.Nothing is ever that simple.
Xp is set to remember the settings for only the last four hundred folders that you have visited. In order to rectify this you will have to edit the Windows Registry. A word of warning here. Making changes to the registry can render your Windows installation unusable,so if you do not have your XP disc to hand then proceed with extreme caution. However,having said that,if you follow the instructions exactly then everything will be hunky-dory.
Select Start,Run,and enter regedit in the box that appears. Navigate to HKey_Current_User/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Shell. Right click on Shell and select New DWORD value.A box will appear in the window to the right.Into this box type following exactly as written below:
BagMRUSize
Now right click on your new entry and select modify. Change the number format to decimal and enter 500000 into the value data box to the left.Then click ok.
Now do exactly the same to the registry folder ShellNoRoam.It will be directly below the Shell folder you have just edited.Do not be tempted to set the DWORD values too high as this will result in XP remembering nothing at all. 500000 should be more than adequate and works perfectly.
Close down the Registry Editor and relax. Now you can leave a folder safe in the knowledge that the precious pics of your kids will be exactly as you left them,unlike the children themselves who can get as dirty as a coal miner in the five seconds that you have your back turned.
