My Documents View

When I open the My Documents folder by double-clicking the desktop icon,
the view I get is File and Folder Tasks, Other Places and Details in the
left side of the window. I click Folders on the toolbar and get the
setup that I want. I cannot get this to stick. I have gone into
Tools|Folder Options|View and clicked Remember each folder's view
options. When I close My Documents and re-open it, the setting is not
remembered. It hasn't always been this way. What can I do to get Windows
XP to remember that setting?

Virginia

Right click My Documents and select Explore.

If you do not use any of the Common Tasks, disable the Common Tasks pane in
folders.

Enable or disable Common Tasks pane in folders
http://www.winxptutor.com/commontasks.htm

Or if you would still like to be able to toggle from Folder Pane to Common
Tasks Pane...

Set Explore as default for (NONE) Folder in Folder Options.

Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
File Types tab | Scroll down to and Select: (NONE) Folder |
Advanced button | Highlight: explore | Set Default | Click OK |
Click Apply | Click OK

Set Default
[[Sets the selected command as the command to be carried out when the file
is invoked.
The default command for the file is shown in bold on the shortcut menu for
the file.]]

This may change some other things that you may not like.

Remember what you did so you can change the default back to Open.

How folders open depends on a number of things.

Depends on the combination of...

Show common tasks in folders
[[Specifies that hyperlinks to common folder tasks and other places on your
computer are displayed in folders. These links appear in the left pane of
the folder window.]]

Use Windows classic folders
[[Specifies that folder contents are displayed like classic Windows folders,
which means that folder contents do not look and work like Web pages.]]

Open each folder in the same window
[[Specifies that the contents of each folder open in the same window. To
switch back to the previous folder, click the Back button on the toolbar, or
press BACKSPACE.]]

Open each folder in its own window
[[Specifies that the contents of each folder open in a new window. The
previous folder content still appears in a different window, so you can
switch between the windows.]]

Under...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
General tab |

Whether Explore or Open is set as default.

Under...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
File Types tab | Scroll down to and Select: (NONE) Folder |
Advanced button |

This effects how double click or single click handles opening a folder.

Single-click to open an item (point to select)
[[Specifies that you want to open items in folders and on the desktop by
single-clicking them, just as you would click a link on a Web page. To
select an item without opening it, rest your pointer on it.]]

Double-click to open an item (single-click to select)
[[Specifies that you want to single-click an item to select it and
double-click an item to open it.]]

Open and Explore are different.

Explore opens folders with Folders pane on the left.
Open opens folders with common tasks showing on the left.

Again that depends on all the settings above.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:OiwWpbtyGHA.4968@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
Virginia <virginia.DeleteThis@domain.invalid> hunted and pecked:
> When I open the My Documents folder by double-clicking the desktop icon,
> the view I get is File and Folder Tasks, Other Places and Details in the
> left side of the window. I click Folders on the toolbar and get the
> setup that I want. I cannot get this to stick. I have gone into
> Tools|Folder Options|View and clicked Remember each folder's view
> options. When I close My Documents and re-open it, the setting is not
> remembered. It hasn't always been this way. What can I do to get Windows
> XP to remember that setting?
>
> Virginia