ShellFolderFix - Manage folder window positions/size

Links fixed

7eleven said:

Protium you're the last chance for life on Galaxy Nebula ! :)
But the link in your post is broken.
Can you please revitalise us?

File not found.
Sorry, that file doesn’t live here anymore. It might have been moved or made private.

Dropbox have been making changes I think. The file is still in my dropbox but they've changed the link to it..

kazink said:

The zipped file contains all of the versions that were available: installer and both 32 and 64-bit versions in a manual installation form. I intend this link to be available for a very long time - possibly until I die or dropbox stops providing free services :) But someone could make a mirror anyway, perhaps on a different file hosting service, just in case.

Thanks for doing this mate. You are right about having it on another site as well.

I have uploaded it to my business site in case dropbox do more weird stuff :)

Download here > Shell Folder Fix 1.1.4

Was the file in a public Dropbox folder? As of March 1, 2017, all DB public folders were converted to private folders.

kazink said:

Then I moved to Windows 8 and 10 on my devices, and it wasn't needed any more.

What? For me it is still needed on Win 8.1

Thanks greatly for posting the link to Win 7 Shell folder fix. I've been very frustrated fighting with this issue for over a month, lots of useless references to links that no longer work. Really "ticked" me off.
Your fix did work perfectly, I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, thanks again a thousand times.

Paul

Anixx said:

What? For me it is still needed on Win 8.1

Don't know why, but the folder window positions and sizes are now properly remembered on my all Windows 7 and 8.1 machines without SFF (SFF has not been installed since system installation). I'm also using Classic Shell on all of them, but I can't find any option for that in it, so it's probably not it.

Anixx said:

What? For me it is still needed on Win 8.1

Same here! I am running Windows 8.1 x64 and I still use it. As soon as I disable it, things revert back to the annoying way it was.

So has this really been fixed in Windows 10?

This shell folder fix works well, but...

It has to be executed every time the computer starts up.
I put a shortcut of the .exe file in the startup folder, works good enuf for me.

Paul

Paul Millette said:

This shell folder fix works well, but...

It has to be executed every time the computer starts up.
I put a shortcut of the .exe file in the startup folder, works good enuf for me.

Paul

Hi Paul,

The 2nd checkbox option in the 'General' section of the application is 'Start automatically at logon' which may not be on by default, but the shortcut in the startup folder works too!

The only other option I have looked into is called WindowManager from DeskSoft, which sells for about $10:
DeskSoft - WindowManager - Window position and size manager

Review/Download
WindowManager 4.5.3 Download - TechSpot

menace97 said:

Same here! I am running Windows 8.1 x64 and I still use it. As soon as I disable it, things revert back to the annoying way it was.

So has this really been fixed in Windows 10?

No, there's no change in Windows 10. And I've never found a good answer for why MS hasn't fixed the BUG in their software. (No, I can't bring myself to call it a needed "feature" since it worked just fine in Windows before!)

And since you don't know it wasn't fixed in Win10, I'm guessing you never upgraded. Unless you've got some custom program that won't run on Wni10, I sure would go see if you can still get the free upgrade!