Re: Windows Explorer Madness

"Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" <revbob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns978E9E878E52Brevbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The voices told me that "Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@xxxxxxxxxxx>
would say on Wed 22 Mar 2006 01:01:56p:

The following is a script that will report on several parameters
relating to saved views. Copy the text between the lines into
notepad & save as a .vbs file, then run the script. Post back
with the results.

Max Views = 400
Index Entry Count = 400
Saved View Count = 57

What's that mean?

The index is full and every time explorer wants to save a new view, it has to delete an old one. If you want to preserve what good views you have, manually edit the registry as follows:

1) navigate to:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam"

2) create a new REG_DWORD value named "BagMRU Size"

3) Make the value data 8000 decimal

If you want to clean everything out and start fresh, apply Kelly's tweak:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Line 2, left-hand column.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


Also, some clarification about opening compressed folders. The
default action for normal folders toggles between 'Open' and
'Explore', depending on whether or not the folder pane is
displayed. The default action for .zip files is 'Open',
regardless of the folder pane. So, if Common Tasks are displayed,
double-clicking a .zip file should open it in the same window. If
the folder pane is displayed, you need to right-click the zip &
select 'explore' to have it open in the current window.

Aha! Thanks for that. Works as advertised. Anything similar for the
Recycle Bin? Oh yeah. I see it in Explorer. Well, not a bad habit to
change, I suppose. I seldom see my desktop.
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Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
bob at crispen dot org
Ex Cathedra weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/

As I sat on death row for shooting the sheriff, I reflected on the
drawbacks of hiring an attorney who went to law school in Jamaica. -
after Bob Van Voris

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