remember view settings for File - Open - Desktop

[Bucic]

All of my view settings seem to stick fine, except when I choose File - Open - Desktop in some application. Then it's Tiles view instead of my Details view, as saved for every other folder.

Win 7 x64
I already tried resetting Folder view options as per http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/41198-folder-view-set-default-all-folders.html

 

[andyandrewjim]

try to restore windows and see if that helps

 

[Ztruker]

It should remember. It works that way on my Win 7 Pro X64 system.

I just tried it with SeaMonkey, IrfanView, and MS Word and they all showed details view which is my preference.

What apps does it not work in?

 

[Bucic]

try to restore windows and see if that helps

Already did.

It should remember. It works that way on my Win 7 Pro X64 system.

I just tried it with SeaMonkey, IrfanView, and MS Word and they all showed details view which is my preference.

What apps does it not work in?

Every app I can find on my system. It used to work on the very system about a month ago. I don't recall what could have brake it... Every app behaves fine (e.g. for some random folder on my HDD) until I choose the Desktop from the tree on the left. If I navigate to \users\<username>\desktop the bahavior is also as desired.

 

[Bucic]

Any other ideas?

 

[Ztruker]

Did you install any software around the time this started happening?

 

[Bucic]

The problem is you always install something... Just to name few: LibreOffice, Skype, CCleaner. Frankly re-installation of any not-suspicious software is not worth the hassle just to solve that issue. In other words I don't do blind trial&error troubleshootings. If anyone knows the right registry key that holds the settings or an effective way to force these settings to reset than I'd be most grateful.

Edit:
Opera too...
The problem is specific to Libraries. When I navigate to Users\Desktop\ from Computer the view is set to details, as I want it.

The problem started when I lost Desktop from favorites in the side tree view in Explorer. Now I recall that around that time I deleted a Desktop.ini file that suddenly appeared on my desktop but most probably without the effect we're talking about here.

I do have a system backup (disk image) made not long ago, so I can restore some files when pointed. One last thing I can try is to go to Personalize and choose the default theme instead of my current custom one.

 

[Bucic]

I tried selecting the default, unmodified theme. It didn't help.

 

[Packet]

isnt view setting basically controlled by the BagMRU size?

Changes to the size, view, icon or position of a folder are lost

 

[Brink]

Hello Bucic,

Did you try resetting folder views using this tutorial instead?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/15692-folder-view-settings-reset-all-default.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Bucic]

Hello Bucic,

Did you try resetting folder views using this tutorial instead?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/15692-folder-view-settings-reset-all-default.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Yes, with no avail.

I haven't tried the Packet's fix yet though...

 

[Brink]

Bucic,

Try it again. I have updated it to also include the other locations as well.

 

[Bucic]

Bucic,

Try it again. I have updated it to also include the other locations as well.

Not only it didn't fix my problem, it did nothing at all to my folder view settings. After restart I still have the default folders view as "List", just like I've set it long time ago.

 

[Packet]

Brink and i are talking about the same thing - i just looked at the reg file

 

[Bucic]

And now I tried the microsoft fix. Nothing has changed.

Edit:
BTW, I tried to follow the manual way from here Changes to the size, view, icon or position of a folder are lost and the keys that I need to delete are not existent and the ones that I need to create are already there with the correct subkey value of 5000.

 

[Brink]

Sorry Bucic,

I just re-read all the posts here again, and there is not a way to set a default folder view setting for the smaller "Open", "Save as", etc..... dialog box windows. You can only do so with the link in your first post in Windows Explorer instead.

 

[Bucic]

Sorry Bucic,

I just re-read all the posts here again, and there is not a way to set a default folder view setting for the smaller "Open", "Save as", etc..... dialog box windows. You can only do so with the link in your first post in Windows Explorer instead.

That's weird because the default view for my desktop folder when browsed from some application open/save window was NOT 'details' and yet it's been 'detail' for me for almost a year since I set it up. It even remembered the sorting by date! Now - nothing. Ah, I think I will ditch my partition images and go for a new install at the first chance I get. For now I just prefer to leave it alone as I plan to move out soon.

One more thing, just a reminder - the problem I'm facing should be called: problem with setting default view for a LIBRARY because essentially the Open/Save dialogues take the view settings from the libraries.

 

[Packet]

dumb question - you are deleting iconcache.db / logging off and back on, right?

(just a theory...)

 

[Bucic]

dumb question - you are deleting iconcache.db / logging off and back on, right?

(just a theory...)

I did it once long time ago. Not once since then. Should I?

 

[Packet]

try it?
it cant hurt.

log off / log back on.