[davehc]

Read th OP more carefully, Blueman. You must save the heavy type as a .reg file, - then run it.

[Anomaly]

OMG mate you can't imagine how happy you make me!!! Hail to you and the lowest bow i can make!
please write more wonderful fixes
----------------------------
for those who experience problems with compiling the reg file:

http://massmirror.com/ae5a34e280b492ea3a6766ea6b8bdd33.html

but please remember you will fail if you wan't read the instructions in this thread

This post has been edited by Anomaly: 26 June 2008 - 07:00 AM

[Anomaly]

..still works
just a few questions: is there any minors of this patch,
and what should i do to clean the memory? (if i'll ever need to..)

_______________________
dear stevecn70, we still have problem with "Save as \ Open"-windows view:

in Windows XP icons was arranged with List by default and i like it that way.

in Vista it's wasn't correct nor before the patch nor after.
please tell me that you're going to fix it!!

[tuttle]

Steve:

Thank you for sharing that with us!

What about on PCs that have multiple user accounts? I applied your reg fix when logged in as Administrator in Vista Home Premium. Your fix applies only to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, so that would be just for my Administrator account. It would not apply to the Standard User account on this PC.

Is there a way to easily apply a .reg file fix for a Standard User account, or must I login as Administrator and launch Regedit, then Load Hive to load registry entries for the other user and then apply each of your steps manually?

This post has been edited by tuttle: 09 July 2008 - 06:44 PM

[stevecn70]

Assuming the other user accounts don't have admin privilages. You can run regedit.exe as administrator, put in your login information and then within regedit, you can go to FILE->IMPORT and load the file there for each user account.

You should be able to just type regedit in the search box in the start menu and when you see it pop up in the list, right click and choose run as admin

[tuttle]

Hi Steve:

Thank you for the reply. I don't think that will work though, unless I misunderstand you.

Once regedit is run as administrator, HKEY_CURRENT_USER will show entries for the Administrator account and not for the other user. HKEY_CURRENT_USER is just a way of displaying the HKEY_USERS entries for the user that launched regedit. I even tested it to confirm: when logged into Windows as standard user, I ran regedit normally and created a new key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then exited regedit. Then I ran regedit as administrator and opened HKEY_CURRENT_USER and the new key was not there.

AFAIK, the only way the administrator can edit HKEY_USERS for a different user is to run regedit | File | Load Hive to load the other user's NTUSER.DAT in order to edit that user's registry entries.

That's why I wonder if I will have to perform your edits manually for that other user, or if there is some way to apply a .reg file to a specific user that has been loaded via Load Hive.

This post has been edited by tuttle: 10 July 2008 - 12:01 AM

[tuttle]

Hello again Steve:

I figured it out. I used Load Hive to load the other user's NTUSER.DAT into HKEY_USERS so I could edit that user's registry entries.

I have now applied your registry fix, but I'm a bit confused on what he sugests to do after that. You wrote:

"Since Auto Discovery is now off you will need to go to your shell folders (Pictures, Videos, Contacts, Music, etc.) and set them to the template you want, apply to subfolders, etc."

Should I now open each of the main folders under each user, (e.g. C:\Users\Larry\Documents, C:\Users\Larry\Pictures, C:\Users\Moe\Documents, C:\Users\Larry\Pictures, etc.),
then do Tools | Folder Options | View | Apply to Folders ?

OR, do I right-click each of those folders (C:\Users\Larry\Documents, C:\Users\Larry\Pictures, etc.) | Customize | select All Items | check "Also apply this template to all subfolders" ?

As you can see, I'm confused about the difference between settings in Tools | Folder Options and those in Customize.

What steps do I need to do now to set my folder settings and have them apply to all folders?

[H.I.M]

Anomaly, on Jun 26 2008, 09:26 AM, said:

OMG mate you can't imagine how happy you make me!!! Hail to you and the lowest bow i can make!
please write more wonderful fixes
----------------------------
for those who experience problems with compiling the reg file:

http://massmirror.com/ae5a34e280b492ea3a6766ea6b8bdd33.html

but please remember you will fail if you wan't read the instructions in this thread

hello everybody. this is my first message on this board

first, thanks for all the precious instructions. but i got problems with compiling the registry file. i checked Anomaly's link but i supose it's dead.

can someone upload the file again please?

[stevecn70]

tuttle, on Jul 11 2008, 09:34 AM, said:

Hello again Steve:

I figured it out. I used Load Hive to load the other user's NTUSER.DAT into HKEY_USERS so I could edit that user's registry entries.

I have now applied your registry fix, but I'm a bit confused on what he sugests to do after that. You wrote:

"Since Auto Discovery is now off you will need to go to your shell folders (Pictures, Videos, Contacts, Music, etc.) and set them to the template you want, apply to subfolders, etc."

Should I now open each of the main folders under each user, (e.g. C:\Users\Larry\Documents, C:\Users\Larry\Pictures, C:\Users\Moe\Documents, C:\Users\Larry\Pictures, etc.),
then do Tools | Folder Options | View | Apply to Folders ?

OR, do I right-click each of those folders (C:\Users\Larry\Documents, C:\Users\Larry\Pictures, etc.) | Customize | select All Items | check "Also apply this template to all subfolders" ?

As you can see, I'm confused about the difference between settings in Tools | Folder Options and those in Customize.

What steps do I need to do now to set my folder settings and have them apply to all folders?

I meant while logged in as that user, you could run regedit as admin, but you figured it out the other way.

2nd question, I mean, right click the main folder as you listed, go to properties, customize, set the template, put a check on apply to subfolders and then click on ok.

[mkr10001]

am i correct in thinking this stops vista from assuming all new folders are for music?

[H.I.M]

thanks for everything

i've done the compiling just applied the settings.

This post has been edited by H.I.M: 23 July 2008 - 07:27 AM

[stevecn70]

mkr10001, on Jul 22 2008, 03:40 PM, said:

am i correct in thinking this stops vista from assuming all new folders are for music?

Yes, The registry file basically does this:

1. Removes all current customizations
2. Increases the number of folders that vista can keep track of
3. Turns off auto-discover, which is where vista desides on it's own what type of folder you have. Which means you will have to manually set your folders to what template you want.

[LaKraven]

Can I recommend to the moderators/admins that this post be pinned? It's a very useful piece of info I reckon lots of people can benefit from

[ducy]

Hi guys

This was very helpful !! BUT I have one thing that bothers me very much. I would like that windows would remember the window size of my explorer, that vas previously opened. Almost each time windows “resets” the size of explorer that was opened. In XP the size was always the same….

Thanks

D.

This post has been edited by ducy: 05 August 2008 - 06:38 PM

[stevecn70]

ducy, on Aug 5 2008, 01:37 PM, said:

Hi guys

This was very helpful !! BUT I have one thing that bothers me very much. I would like that windows would remember the window size of my explorer, that vas previously opened. Almost each time windows "resets" the size of explorer that was opened. In XP the size was always the same….

Thanks

D.

Try holding down shift when you close the explorer window. Mine usually saves the previous setting but not always, especially if you have more than one window open

[ducy]

Hay

So I'll have to hold down Shift always when I close explorer. Are there any general settings that I could fix for that?
Well this window size is really bothering me.... grrr

[love]

thank you so much! everything is working, no more going back to fixing every folder settings every day!

[rico]

Found another site thats supposed to fix vista explorer errors, 'The green bar of death' http://www.pcmag.com...,2332394,00.asp

You have to be an admin to apply registry patches.

[Sexie]

I have deleted by mistake the following info from registry, instead of modifying it.

Quote

; Modify the Folder Storage space to 20000, this will allow the saving of settings for up to 20000 different folders.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:00004e20

Can some one tell me how to add it again ?

Add as Key ? DWORD(32BIT) ? QWORD(64BIT) ? ETC... ?

It looks like this right now,



Thanks !!!

This post has been edited by Sexie: 27 October 2008 - 10:02 PM

[Zardoc]

Seems I missed this site.

Nice.