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Teach Windows 7 to Remember Your Folder Positions (Like It Used to in Windows XP)

January 29th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

Categories: Computers, Software, Time-Savers

Tags: Folder, Microsoft Windows XP, ShellFolderFix, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Dave Johnson

Have you discovered that Windows 7 doesn’t remember the size and location of folders on the desktop? If you like a particular folder to open small and squat in the lower right corner, while a different folder opens tall along the left side, you have to manually resize and move them each time in Windows 7. If you have multiple monitors and want certain folders to open on each display, your problems are even worse. Well, now there’s a fix.

ShellFolderFix is a TweakUI-like utility that forces Windows to remember folder size and locations on the desktop.

I’ve found that the program works like a charm. By default, it memorizes the location of as many as 500 folders, but you can increase that value if needed. It also does a few other things, but the real value here is folder positions. If you miss that ability from Windows XP, you have no excuse not to try our ShellFolderFix. [via gHacks]

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