Where do you go in Windows Me (and/or the registry) to verify that your
Customized Folder options are correct?
Every once in a while, all my customized folders get reset to default, and I
lose all my little notes, picture previews, web templates, etc.
Generally, this happens if I delete the wrong entry that Spybot or Ad-aware
finds -- but I do not know which entry (or entries) pertain to the
customized folders in Windows Explorer. If someone can tell me this, I can
flag those so that Spybot and Ad-aware ignore them in future scans.
Internet Explorer is linked to Windows Explorer in certain things. I have
noticed that when I am online with my browser open at the same time I am
customizing a folder (or editing the message on an existing customization)
in Windows Explorer that my browser refreshes as Windows Explorer refreshes.
So the registry entries for customized folders might be under Windows
Explorer, Explorer, or Internet Explorer in the registry, or a combination
of all three. I don't know.
Here is a related problem that happened yesterday. In addition to the folder
customizations being lost, and all my little folder messages being lost, all
the icons on the right side of the Windows Explorer window were flush up
against the window, instead of about an inch and a half to the right. There
was no place for thumbnail previews to display. No place for custom messages
to display. And on my D Drive root directory, the little pie chart that
shows how much space is used and free was missing. It showed up for C, but
not for D. It would not let me customize folders at all. The menu option to
customize this folder was not even available for the C drive root directory.
It was on the menu for the other folders on C, and on D, but it did not
work.
The only way I could fix this problem was to do two system restores. All my
customizations are back, and the folder icons display properly again,
including the one for my D drive. The pie chart is back as it should be.
If this happens again, I'd like to know where to go into the registry to fix
it.
Also, please tell me which Internet Explorer, Explorer, and Windows Explorer
entries should not be deleted by Spybot and Ad-aware, so that (1) my folder
customizations and notes remain intact, and (2) the icons display properly
on the right side of the window, and I don't lose the root directory pie
charts or the ability to customize folders.