ShellFolderFix - Manage folder window positions/size

NoelC said:

K1Starr, do you have your system set to open a new window every time you navigate into (i.e., double click) a folder?

I think tweaker's response is based on his having set his system (as I have) to open new folders in the same window.

Hope this helps.

-Noel

Thanks Noel. I had missed an adequate apreciation for the User Interface module (ShellFolderFixUI.exe). After reading Tweaker's response, I found the option, corrected it, and life is as it should be.

Thanks for the offer but I'm all good :)

Is it possible to make this app only open new windows to the old position - not existing windows?

Livin said:

Is it possible to make this app only open new windows to the old position - not existing windows?

Yes, see this post.

tweaker said:

Livin said:

Is it possible to make this app only open new windows to the old position - not existing windows?

Yes, see this post.

perfect, thank you for a great app!

sbrads said:

I didn't have ShellFolderFix's 'Start Automatically at logon' ticked and the option below, 'Restore Previous at logon' was greyed out but ticked so I couldn't deselect it unless the 'Start Auto...' one was also ticked. Perhaps something here changed with the last Shellfolder Fix update, because I never had any problems with the previous version using the Startup folder.

Hmm, I didn't change anything relating to that so probably just coincidence. The Restore option is greyed out if it doesn't have Auto enabled (ie. if it doesn't find its shortcut in the startup folder) because the Restore option is ignored unless
the app is started from that shortcut (which has a /autostart command line param).

What you described could happen if the shortcut has a different name, or for some other reason it failed to find the shortcut, but can be worked around like you did.

As for why the recovery folder popped up every time, even if you closed it, I don't know. That does sound odd because it should only have restored windows that actually were previously open, but if you got everything working like you want we'll just pretend that it never happend

tweaker said:

if you got everything working like you want we'll just pretend that it never happened

Something happened?

I get an error message: "Could not determine the data path because environement variable "APPDATA" was not found. Is there a fix so that I can try the ShellFolderFix?

New install of Windows 7 on new HP 6730b Laptop.

That's pretty strange, that environment var is set by the OS. I can try an alternative solution that you can try, did you download the installer or one of the zip packages (if so which)?