How to fix IE8's LAST SAVED LOCATION *bug* (Solution)

This is a really annoying bug in Internet Explorer 8 where it forgets that last saved location for images. So if you are planning on saving many images off a website, it could take you forever redirecting the browser each time to the location you want.

Here's the fix! *works on Windows 7 and Windows Vista (not tested by me on Windows XP but I believe it should also work)


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IE8 uses a mechanism called Loosely Coupled IE(LCIE) that creates a host-process & separate sub-processes for tabs.


1) Open registry editor and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main, create a DWORD value, and name it TabProcGrowth.
TabProcGrowth=0: Tabs will be created as threads(instead of processes) in the iexplore.exe process(only 1 process exist, thus no save path resets);
TabProcGrowth=1: Tabs will be created as separate sub-processes according to different mandatory integrity levels;
TabProcGrowth>1: Tabs will be created as separate sub-processes until the maximum number of tabs(specified by this value) is reached;
No TabProcGrowth value: Default, amount of free physical memory will determine the number of sub-processes.



Basically, to sum this up, you need to keep the value at 0.

Restart IE then try!

Enjoy

 

nice, and that way, all of the new gains of ie8 get lost, as the tabs aren't individual processes anymore

anyways, it's a nice tweak till it gets fixed.