Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
Have you searched the web for "remember each folder's view settings"?
I hadn't Googled it, but I did. I found a MS KB article about how to tweak the Registry for more than 200 folder layouts etc. Mine already had all those tweaks, set to 5000 - I did that via TweakUI, which is a lot easier than Regedit. Not that I need 5000 (200 might almost be enough).
In desperation,I changed the "default" format to icons (so all my detailed file lists are now in icons). That kept the icons OK on reboot, but the folders still resize themselves from the "convenient" size to almost full screen.
"Remember each folder's view settings" is turned on. I turned it off, rebooted, turned it on, reset, rebooted. Guess what
Now I'm convinced it's a bug in that laptop, cos the desktop behaves perfectly.