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Win 7 won't remember individual folder sizes

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NECyclone

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I can't get Win 7 to remember individual opened folder sizes and positions. It wants to make them all the same size. In XP and vista there was a setting for windows to remember "each" folders view settings. Where is this in Win 7? The only option I see to to use the "current' view setting across all the folders.

Thanks
 
Hope you get an answer since this is bothering me as well. Have to adjust them each time. Another snafu
 
I would also love an answer to this as it's irritating as hell with some of the directories I use on a regular basis.

 
You're confusing window position/size settings and window content/view settings, they're two completely different things. Explorer windows all will use the same size/position when reopened unless a window already exists in that position; if so, the next one will open at a position 45 degrees down and to the right of the previous one, until it reaches the borders on the bottom/right side of the screen, where it will then open the next one in the upper left, then proceed in the 45 degree down/right direction once again.

You can save folder view settings based on the actual folder, which seems to work just fine for me given the defaults of a Windows 7 installation. But the first thing I do with Explorer is revert everything I can to List view - I have no use for any others, and some folders like those in the Libraries are a complete bitch to "force" to List view but it works at some point. I can't do it with Folder options as it'll revert each time, so I have to set the folder to List view then refresh it a few times with F5. Once it "sticks" I never have to mess with it again.

Soooo... window positions won't stick, since Explorer windows all use the same settings, a window is a window in that respect. But the folder views will, just set them the way you want and hit F5 a few times, it'll stick.
 
It also depends on how you view the folder. If you go in from My Computer -> C:\ etc, or view from Windows Explorer,etc., the view will be different. I set my Libraries view to be 'content', close the folder, computer went to sleep and woke it up and it's still displayed as 'content', so I know the functionality works if you view the folders the same was as you did last time.

One thing that bothers me about Win 7 is how everything is auto arranged now and there's no way to disable it, except on the desktop. So far I've found nothing as far as registry tweaks to disable it. Oh well, it's still a good OS anyways.
 
On some folders within a folder I have done the below to get those folders to open in a window view of my choice but others don't

1 Start

2 Type Windows Explorer in the Search Box

3 Click on Windows Explorer when shown above after doing number 2

4 In upper left side find and click on Organize

5 In next box, change folder options bullet from Open folder in same window to Open in its own window

6 Click Apply
 
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Thanks for the responses and the help guys...but to no avail.

I've tried the suggestions above but individual folder positions and sizes just won't "stick".

I've asked this question on a couple other forums. My only concellation is that there are alot of people that miss the "have windows remember individual folder view settings" like me and trying to fix something that before was taken for granted is now frustrating. :)
 
Again, Folder View settings have nothing to do with window position or size, they're two totally unrelated settings. Windows 7 has no issues with remembering folder views; in fact that's one of the big pluses about it, that Windows finally will remember the specific view settings on a per folder basis without a lot of hassles. I distinctly remember seeing more than one post here back in December around the time the first "serious" leak happened of a Windows 7 build where more than one person expressed great satisfaction that finally it remembered how he/she set the folders unlike even Vista which still chokes and forgets sometimes.

I haven't had a single issue with folder views as I noted before - I choose List view for every one of 'em, and ones that have predefined view settings by default (like the Libraries folders - Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos) only require me to alter them to List view and hit F5 maybe 2-3 times. After that, the List view "sticks" and I never have to mess with it again...

Folders don't have positions or sizes, windows do and that's not something that seems to be "savable" on a per folder basis. Explorer windows all use the same settings as I mentioned before, and will always be the same size unless something is terribly wrong.
 
Hi Joe,
Sorry to be such a noob... :). I suspect I'm mistakenly calling it "Folder View" settings because thats where I'm use to making the settings. I open 'My Computer" from the desktop icon and under the Tools menu there is a "Folder options". Under the "View" tab in Vista and XP you could have it "remember each individual folder view setting". This setting I'm pretty sure also remembered the window position and size when you opened the folder to view its contents. I dual booted back into xp a bit ago and turned this setting off and xp behaved just like how Win 7 is for me currently....opening the folder windows in the same standard size and not remembering the size I had previously set them at. When I turn this option back on XP, remembers the size-location after I adjust the window to the way I want it. I was simply hoping I could do this same thing in Win 7 but in all honesty I might be to challanged to do it :).

Either that or I need a beer :0

On a side note, I have not had any problems with xp or vista forgeting whether I wanted the folder contents displayed as listed, small icon, large icon, or detailed. XP, Vista and Win 7 all remember those display settings just fine for me... it's just the size-location of the opened folder I'm having trouble with.

Thanks for you patience :)
 
Since we are talking about folder views. I like having EVERYTHING to be shown in list view, except for the Pictures folder, which I like to be thumbnails. However, I have tons of folders in my Pictures folder. Is there a way to have everything in Pictures folder to be thumbnails with out having to do it manually by going in each folder?
 
Joe Average,
It seems to me that you are just splitting very fine hairs here just for the sake of doing so when you say: "Again, Folder View settings have nothing to do with window position or size" and being argumentative without actually offering any actual help or a solution, and also you don't really know what you are talking about.

Here are the facts:

In Windows XP there was a check box about midway down the second tab of the folder options settings which read "remember each folders view settings" and when that box was checked XP would remember each folders view settings and size and position because it would record all that information for each folder on an individual basis in one single database.

In Windows Vista this changed. Vista used a separate databases for view settings and window size and position, meaning that there were two databases, but would automatically remember each folders view settings as long as you had it configured to open each folder in a separate window - hence the absence of that check box, considering there would have to be two in vista (one for the view settings database and one for the size and position database). Having to have two check boxes to do what only one used to do would make the design flaw even more obvious to people so Microsoft seemingly decided to make them both always checked without letting the end-user have a choice in the matter.

Windows 7 simply got rid of the size and position database, which is why it won't remember a windows size and position.

Here is the solution you have all been looking for:
It's a program called "ShellFolderFix" and it works great. It has a few configuration options you can customize and it will successfully remember each folder's size and position whether you have windows folder options set to open each folder in a new window or same window. It will even remember which screen you want a folder to open on in case you are using multiple monitors. The program is available free of charge here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/customiz...rfix-manage-folder-window-positions-size.html

It is very easy to customize it to behave just the way you want it and it uses virtually no memory. Best of all it really works.

-Cheers
 
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ColdBrandedPirate, this thread is over two years old, and the guy you are replying to has been banned for a while..just fyi that is frowned upon.
 
Well,
I just started looking for a solution to this myself that night as I just got a my first look at Win 7 days ago when I got a new computer. When I found a solution to this issue I thought I'd share it on all the threads of all the BBSs I checked that didn't actually offer a solution, just so others who didn't have a fix for this would finally have one. No one else managed to find a solution to this issue for over two years, or at least if someone did they didn't bother to post it here, so I did. I can't imagine why that would be frowned upon.
 
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