The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    XP does not remember my settings

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by netscorer, Jan 13, 2006.

  1. netscorer

    netscorer Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    This is a stupid issue that I have with my XP installation (administrator account) and can not fix for some reason.
    Simply put, XP forgets some of the settings that I set and upon next logon resets them to the previous state.
    The three specific places:
    1) Desktop icon arrangement - XP has this set to autoarrange. I can reset it and place my icons any way I want, but upon next logon the setting is back
    2) Quick Launch Panel display - this setting for some reason reverts to unchecked state every logon
    3) Explorer Status Bar - same here

    Have any of you had anything similar and found the solution?

    Cheers,

    netscorer.
     
    netscorer, Jan 13, 2006
    #1
  2. dragonesse

    dragonesse Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    251
    Messages:
    1,176
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    For the first problem, I'd say uncheck the autoarrange option. Otherwise you've got something wierd going on.
     
    dragonesse, Jan 13, 2006
    #2
  3. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    947
    Messages:
    8,970
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Brian, Jan 13, 2006
    #3