Windows Vista tip of the week: Forcing windows to remember their sizes, locations, and customizations

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re: Windows Vista tip of the week: Forcing windows to remember their sizes, locations, and customizations

Flenser — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:39:21 GMT

The instructions on this page:

thevistaforums.com/index.php

are a much simpler version of the Ridiculous hard instructions.

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re: Windows Vista tip of the week: Forcing windows to remember their sizes, locations, and customizations

Dipsh t Admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:29:37 GMT

Well this tip seemed to work for me with what has been a very annoying aspect of Vista. I always have to maximize and explorer window, and holding CTRL while closing it seems to have worked.

re: Windows Vista tip of the week: Forcing windows to remember their sizes, locations, and customizations

Snakedoctor1 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:54:23 GMT

Good tips roblind, but I got to wander if Joe User would find that to much to remember?

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roblind — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:44:22 GMT

I hear you on this one! This drove me nuts when I first got Vista. Here's what has worked for me so far: when setting a shell folder (Documents, Music, etc.), hold down ALT when closing the window; when setting an application, hold down Ctrl when closing the window.

But there's more.

Vista has a "customize" tab in properties of the shell folders. Make sure you set the option "Use this folder type as a template" to match the shell folder type, otherwise it will display strangely.

But there's more.

While you're still in the properties dialogue, make sure to check the option "Also apply this template to all subfolders" directly under the previously mentioned option.

Once you take of this, I've found Vista generally stays consistent. I have still had things go weird once in a while, but they have always been corrected with this routine. Hope this helps.

re: Windows Vista tip of the week: Forcing windows to remember their sizes, locations, and customizations

Snakedoctor1 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:41:39 GMT

This was one of my many complaints about Vista. It forgot what I set.

XP never did this to me. If I set say detailed view for everything in XP, but control panel I set icon view, my pictures folder thumbnail view, it stayed that way. Vista did not or did not when I last ran it as my main PC back in 11/07.

BTW good article on the 360/media center deal. I could not agree more. I put a Linksys wireless N gaming bridge on my 360, plugs into the Ethernet port, and allows me to run my house at N only.

Also my biggest complaint about the 360 (beyond the noise and my RROD) is the Hard Drive. A buddy of mine bought a 320gig SATA notebook drive off of newegg for $150 and dropped it into his PS3. He has ripped his kids movies to it and NO MORE DVD's! The 360 120 way overpriced.

Peace!

re: Windows Vista tip of the week: Forcing windows to remember their sizes, locations, and customizations

yert — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:19:52 GMT

Games are especially difficult to deal with; Final Fantasy XI tends to open and close Windows when transitioning between the launcher and the actual game.