Re: Windows Explorer cant remember Openned Folders

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From: Bill James (wgjames_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/03/05


Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:48:00 -0700

Here's the contents for a .reg file, or just edit the Registry key manually if you are comforable with doing that:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000001

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"Bankie" <Bankie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7DA5AF02-7F12-48B6-8C6E-632B36F0DAE9@microsoft.com...
> Hi Galen,
> Thanks for the assistance. Its the registry tweak that i need. your 
> suggestion will only work for a WinXP machine and not a Win2K. Any Idea?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> "Galen" wrote:
> 
>> In news:B76D6334-FEE3-42D8-8258-B8AD1335D3D9@microsoft.com,
>> Bankie <Bankie@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:
>> 
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > I just cant seem to help myself now. After installing a patch on a
>> > windows 2000 Professional machine, my opened folders b4 shutdown does
>> > not reopen when i start the machine. certain i needto twick something
>> > in the folders settings. Any assistance?
>> 
>> You can try this:
>> 
>> Click Folder Options in Control Panel
>> 
>> Then, on the View tab, click to select the Restore Previous Folder Windows
>> at Logon check box.
>> I am not on a 2k box right at the moment but I think that's how it's done in
>> 2k. There's a reg tweak for it somewhere if that doesn't work for you.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Galen
>> -- 
>> 
>> "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me
>> the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am
>> in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial
>> stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for
>> mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes
>> 
>> 
>>


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