Re: Justify folder view to bottom right?

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Kinda - Sorta :)

When I set explorer to open in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, the first window did it right, but opening subsequent windows(with the first still open) bumped them to the upper left corner. That's the built-in cascading to keep windows from opening directly on top of one another. However, when I set the default position to approximately one title-bar width away from the bottom & right edges, the first window opened in that position and subsequent windows opened in the corner (piling directly on top of each other!)

Here's the drill:

1) Open regedit & navigate to:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam"

2) Export for backup and then delete "BagMRU" & "Bags"

3) Open an explorer window, size it & position it near the corner (one title bar width away), then close the window.

4) Refresh your view in regedit (F5), "BagMRU" & "Bags" should be recreated. Export the following key:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\1\Shell"

5) Open the exported file for editing and make the following changes:

a) change

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\1\Shell"

to

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell"

b) delete all values but the following (value names vary based on screen resolution):

"MinPos1024x768(1).x"=dword:ffffffff
"MinPos1024x768(1).y"=dword:ffffffff
"MaxPos1024x768(1).x"=dword:ffffffff
"MaxPos1024x768(1).y"=dword:ffffffff
"WinPos1024x768(1).left"=dword:00000184
"WinPos1024x768(1).top"=dword:000000f5
"WinPos1024x768(1).right"=dword:000003d0
"WinPos1024x768(1).bottom"=dword:00000289
"WFlags"=dword:00000000
"ShowCmd"=dword:00000001

6) Save the modified file & then merge it into the registry.

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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


"Dana.Blue" <dana.blue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1151254683.974836.244150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is there a way to change the default XP file/folder view from top-left
to bottom right? Add-on program, setting, registry tweak, etc??

Thanks!
Dana


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