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Shell Tweaks
To see this option in action, open a few Explorer windows.
Then, right-click an empty area of the taskbar, select Task
Manager, choose the Processes tab, and click the Image
Name column header to sort the list alphabetically. If you??™ve
elected to launch folder windows in a separate process,
you??™ll see multiple instances of Explorer.exe listed, one for
each open window and one for the desktop. (Note that a
problem that prevented Windows from reinstating a crashed
desktop in previous versions of Windows has been more or
less fixed in Vista.)
Remember each folder??™s view settings. This option, when enabled, forces
Explorer to remember the ???view??? settings for the 20??“30 most recently
opened folders, such as the sort order and icon size. This ???memory???
overrides the default view settings, but only for the folders you??™ve
recently customized.
Unfortunately, this feature does cause problems from time to time. If
you ever encounter a folder missing all its Details columns, for instance
(only the Name column appears), then turn off this option temporarily
to force Windows to forget the settings for the folder. Leave this option
off if you want your folders to always be shown with your chosen
default view settings.
To change the defaults used by all folders, click the Apply to
Folders button at the top of the Folder Options window, as
described in the section ???Force Explorer to Remember Its
Own Settings,??? next.
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