I Have had 2 problems with display of Windows Explorer. I'm sure this happened after I ran a Windows Update and think I lost connection 1/2 way through. 1. The Folder pane was blank and wouldn't come back whatever I did. I fixed this by changing entry in Registry, see this link: http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?threadid=113867. 2. I can't keep/save the view settings (eg to Details instead of Large Icons) even though I have the box "remember each folder's view settings" ticked. This happened the same time as above problem. It doesn't save the changes to the window size etc either. NB this is also happening to a Win 98 machine when I ran a Win Update on that. Any thoughts?

Hi, I have the same problem as you describe (no 2) but not number 1, so I don’t think they are related. It's annoying. //Bosse

Check out TweakXP.com: (http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1922.aspx) for an article on "Fix Folder View Memory Loss". It applies to Windows XP and involves a registry hack.

Windows xp forgets my folder view settings. Is there a fix? How to fix this annoying problem: By default, Windows XP will remember the view settings for the 400 most recently used folders. After that, XP will begin overwriting the data of the oldest folder, and its view setting will be lost. The information is stored in the registry by two keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam These keys can be modified to make XP remember more folder settings. Open Windows Explorer and go to Tools--Folder Options--View--Advanced Settings. Ensure that "Remember each folder's view settings" is checked. Open Regedit and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell. Right-click on "Shell", then follow to New--Key--DWORD Value. Name this item "BagMRU Size" (without quotation marks, but with a space between BagMRU and Size). Double-click BagMRU Size, give it a Decimal value of 2000, then click OK. Now go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam. Create another BagMRU Size DWORD Value for "ShellNoRoam". Again, give it a Decimal value of 2000, then click OK. You will have two "BagMRU Size" values equal to 0x000007d0 (2000). Close the registry and reboot. Windows XP will now remember 2000 folder view settings instead of 400 You could also try higher values if you are a power user, I use 8000 instead of 2000. Always remember to back up your registry. You should only consider editing the registry if you are comfortable with it. Please look here if you have issues starting regedit : http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/faq.asp Windows xp forgets my folder view settings. Is there a fix? How to fix this annoying problem: By default, Windows XP will remember the view settings for the 400 most recently used folders. Aft

Thanks for these two replies (I've been away for a while), but two thoughts: 1) I am running Win2000 not XP, would it be the same? (eg I don't have a SHELL line, only ShellNoRoam with MUICache under it. 2)We've only had the machine a month or two so can't believe we'd have opened so many folders to cause a problem.