Why Windows Vista forgets Folder settings? Here’s how you fix it
Previously we discussed one of the fundamental problems that exists in Windows XP was that it kept on forgetting your folders view and arrangement settings and all those settings were lost after the 400 folder limit was reached. If you are using Windows XP and want to expand this capacity, read this article.
Although this limit was increased in Windows Vista to 5000 folders. You can still exceed this limit in case you have a very large Hard Disk Drive or you have a huge volume of folders.
The good news is that you can combat with this problem in Windows Vista as well. Here is a simple tweak which will allow you to expand this capacity to upto 10,000 folders. But before you begin, make sure you have made a backup of your registry.
1. Click Start Menu, in the search bar type Run,
2. Inside the Run window, type REGEDIT and hit ENTER,
3. Locate the path as shown below:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
In case you can’t understand the path as shown above, try locating one by one; for instance look for HKEY_CURRENT_USER first, then inside it Software, then inside this folder look for Microsoft and so on…
4. Once you are inside the Shell folder; you will see a file, named BagMRU Size,
5. Right click on the file name click modify; you may double click the file to modify it,
6. The default value is set to 5000 in decimal (or 1388 in Hexadecimal), choose Decimal from the radio button and enter the value; 10,000 for instance.
6. Click OK and reboot your system for changes to take place.
Easy isn’t it? If you are having some trouble following this procedure, drop us a comment below.
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This article has NOTHING to do with folder settings. It is about capacity of folders, but NOT about folder settings, such as VIEW.