View setting all messed up...

Damage?

Not likely.

This was something that bothered me, too ... but it was corrected when I installed SP1.

Since we are on the subject of weird WinXP behavior:

The thing that SP1 <i>didn't</i> fix was with My Favorites. Any bootmark I had created with a specific "name" (for my own personal organization) appeared three times, with the second and third entries being the <i>original</i> name of the bookmark when it was first made, although I always edit them before placing the new bookmark into a folder.

This happened when I first transferred my saved Favorites folder from Win2K into WinXP, and it happened again when SP1 was installed.

I have over 2000 bookmarks, so that required <i>a lot</i> of checking and editing to remove the duplicates. I had to manually delete something like 3500-4000 entries. Twice.

This still happens periodically, although not to all the bootmarks at once ... just a few, regardless of the folder or file attributes that I select. The more characters that are in the original bootmark for a page or site, the more likely that a second entry will appear, and it appears that the length of the second entry will cause WinXP to display it again. My best guess ... 60 characters or more, three entries. Less ... two entries.

Interestingly enough, I don't lose the bookmark that I created. I just have three that point to the same page.

Aren't Windows bugs wonderful things? I'd like to kiss Bill right on his little fuzzy cheek, and then gently motivate him with a tap from a tire iron.

Toey

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Nice try, but ...

I'm the sole administrator on the home network, with no other users.

And I'm running FAT32.

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That's probably an excellent suggestion. However, if that was the case, I wonder why the same problem didn't occur in Win2K/FAT32, with a similar setup?

I may have to live with it then, because I don't care much for NTFS, and won't be converting the file system, even if it <i>would</i> solve the problem.

The files that I believe are controlling the folder views are ComCtl32.dll & SHELL.DLL, but don't take my word for that.

Personally, I haven't run into any problems with SP1, either with the Express or the Network installation. I've installed it onto systems with both Intel and VIA chipsets without any incidents.

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Interesting... so it happens on all xp & 2000 since it's a bug?

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