I have run across the problem before where folders will not stay in place on
the desktop. What I do is select what setting I want, then select "Auto
Arrange" and it seems to *set* it sometimes.
The other solution (providing you are running Windows '98) is to click on
the [Start] button, select [Settings] then [Folders] and the [View] tab.
There is a box to check for saving the desktop settings in there.
I usually don't have this type of problem myself so may be steering you
blind and possibly someone else may have a better solution?
Steven
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeannie" <madamx(a)trellis.net>
To: <VAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: [VAGEN-L] UUUGGHH!!!
I'm slowly being driven insane by my own computer! Now
generally, I don't
have much trouble making my computer do what I want it to, but for some
reason, the simplest thing (or at least it seems it should be simple) is
grinding on my last nerve.
I like my folders and the files therein arranged alphabetically. That
seems the most logical way to do things to me. But for some reason, all
of
mine have gotten messed up and are arranged by date or some such
thing.
So
whenever I go to open a file, it's no longer there where I'm
used to
seeing
it. So, I right-click, choose to rearrange my folder by names, and
it
does
so with no problems. However, the next time I come back to the
folder,
things are all messed up again!!! There must be some default switch
somewhere but I can't find it. I've went thru all the crap about making
all the folders be the same, and that seems to have worked on most of my
folders, but the folders inside "My Documents" contain many folders inside
folders and once you get down in there a ways, it reverts back to being
arranged by date again. I'm using Win98. Does anyone know what in the
world has happened to screw this up all of a sudden? Any ideas as to who
I
should talk to? Any help would be appreciated. Please reply to me
personally rather than to the list as I'm on digest version. Thanks!
Jeannie
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