XP Sp3 - Will not remember ANY view / icon settings...
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Hey guys, hope someone can provide some insight here.
Up until very recently, everything has been hunky dory with my system. Out of the blue I decided to do a scan with Malwarebytes Antimalware, and it came up with two rather insignificant little things that I promptly removed (I keep my system in excellent order and rarely ever get anything like that, but it happens). I removed those, and found that after restarting, all of my icons and view settings had reset and my system will no longer save any changes I make. For example, my computer is now in windowed mode - if I open it, maximise it and close it again, it will simply return to being windowed the next time I open it. If I change a folder from tiles to list, it will revert to tiles again if I so much as press back then go back into it. I've always kept my BagMRU size at about 16,000 and have never had any issues with that, but I have scoured through EVERYTHING I can think of and am just coming up blank. Here's a shortlist of what I've looked at;
1) all Bags and BagMRU Size keys are in place and setup properly (under HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/) exactly as they always have been (set to 16,000 at present).
2) I have tried doubling the BagMRU Size just in case, no change.
3) 'Remember each folders view settings' is ticked under Folder -> View Options -> View, and 'Restore previous folder windows at logon' is disabled. I have tried unticking Remember each folders view settings, saving, restarting, reticking, saving and restarting again but it had no effect.
4) I have tried totally wiping out the HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ subkeys for bags and such and starting from scratch but it still won't work. I have done this both manually and by way of one of the thousands of different reg keys people have provided out there to do this automagicall. No joy.
5) HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current version/Policies/Explorer/ NoSaveSettings is disabled so THAT'S not causing it either.
All I can think is that there must be some random obscure setting or registry key that got changed or deleted when those two malware infections were removed that's completely preventing my system from remembering ANY view settings. It's driving me insane. Even network folders on my server PC won't retain their view settings and that's utterly maddening when trying to view TV shows and such and always being forced into thumbnails or something else... Argh.
Any thoughts?
General bug, Used to get this problem all the time.
How did you resolve it? I've had this once on an old PC too but for the life of me I can't recall what the fix was. It's clearly some minor little thing somewhere I've missed... Someone must have an idea?
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