Folder views and Vista

[Dumb Dude]

Quick question. Is there any way to up the amount of folder views that Vista saves? I'm darn tired of having to put this folder on list, that folder on thumbnails, and arranging them by date modified instead of by name, etc...

For Windows XP there was that PowerToy TweakUI that let you set the number of folder views that it would save. Does Vista have anything similar to that or is there some kind of registry value that I can change? This seriously gets annoying. Also because sometimes the little thumbnail on the folders in my music folder change to very random images like instead of showing NIN album art for my NIN folder, it has the Scrubs season 2 dvd image I have set for my Scrubs season 2 folder, stuff like that.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

Try going to the Properties of the folder and Customize instead of Folder and Search Options. Setting the folder icon there should make it stick, too.

 

[Dumb Dude]

But going through customize you can't choose the view type, sort by, or group by options. Also, with the folder icon thing, in the rare event that some totally random image appears as the folder icon in one of my folders, I have found that the only solution has been to create a new folder and move the stuff over to the new one.

I just wish there was something like that XP program. I can tell I'm hitting the folder save limit because everytime I change the view to one folder, another folder's view gets all messed up. It used to be that way when I had XP until I downloaded that TweakUI program and upped the folder saves to the maximum value.

EDIT: I found the solution.
In the registry I went to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell

And modifed the value of BagMRU Size from 5000, to 50000. That means now it'll save 50,000 folder views instead of the default 5,000. GG to me, and thank you to all.

 

[Krynn72]

You're welcome!