Annoying folder view behaviour is Vista

Scottland

Scottland

Scottland

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Basically, windows is not remembering the view settings for individual folders. It is becoming tiresome now.

If I go into My Computer, drivers are grouped by type. With headers various drive related headers. If I enter the C (boot) drive, they too are grouped by name. If I remove the grouping and go back into my computer (either straight away or at a later time), it will be sorted by name and not grouped by type. The headers will also have changed.

Similar things happen in other drives and folders too. For instance, my music folder has music related headers (artist, album, track# etc), other folders (with only data in, no media) seem to have taken on these headers (and grouping options). If I change them, it alters various folders - not just the folder I'm viewing.

I've reset the folder views, and checked/unchecked the option to remember each folders view settings. But it doesn't solve the problem.

I have another Vista PC, which is not affected by this problem.

Any ideas?
 
Yes in Vista and I recall similar things happening in XP (sigh). The root of my Vista C: drive thinks it contains music - artist, album etc. headers in explorer and other folders seem to have a mind of their own.

Technet forums here have some ideas for Vista.

I recall doing the same sort of thing in XP as well - deleting the bags entry in the registry and increasing the number of folders XP kept track of. All sadly to limited effect. I'm hoping SP1 may sort it out in Vista.
 
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