Hi there, hope I can help a bit here.
The first week or so I had Vista Ultimate x64 installed, it was driving me MAD, seemingly randomly changing my folder views, including My Computer... and generally the folder views wouldn't save.
I found the following on a website, and saved as a text file for future reference. It's worked for me. I noticed when I came to delete the two registry keys, that they were pretty much empty. After deleting the keys, and restarting, and checking the registry a few days later, they were full of sub keys. So, fixed my prob, hope it can do the same for you
V1N.
P.S. and don't forget to make some kind of backup before fiddling with the registry
P.P.S. The Vista keys are just below "solution one"
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Based on this article:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_common_tasks.htm
Solution One, in the article, is probably your only recourse, which involves
deleting two registry keys. However, the registry keys that Keith Miller,
the author of the article, refers to are for Windows XP, and not Vista. The
locations for these keys have changed in Vista (as have many others, which
is why I cringed a little at Chad Harris's post, since there are really no
up-to-date sites, yet, that I know of, that deal with the changes in Vista's
registry, as they are only
accurate for XP). (By the way, Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders,
so no tweaking is
really necessary. Windows XP SP2, too, increased the Bag value to 5000,
from 400 in XP SP1).
Anyway, by deleting these two keys, you will start with a clean slate, and
all remembered folder settings in Windows Explorer for view state, window
position, sort order, column information, folder type, toolbar toggles, and
search result views will be lost, and reset to the correct defaults, just so
you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will
also be
deleted.
The keys in Vista are:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU
(right-click on BagMRU and choose delete)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags
(right-click on Bags and choose delete)
Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done
automatically), and start anew.
I recently had to do this myself, on my computer, because the folder type
templates had gone haywire, making the Windows and System 32 folders
Music-type folders, which resulted in inappropriate Explorer Bar tasks (with
no way to change it, since they're special folders), all my New Folders
defaulted to Picture-type folders, and folder views kept getting scrambled
from views I had chosen: all these
being among other things that were driving me crazy. This fixed things
nicely, for me, and now special folders show the right tasks, and regular
folders use the All Items template, all with more logical default columns,
as well...
Hope this helps,
Dean
