mbmanley
07-06-2002, 01:13 AM
Up until recently, any "user" folders (say, under My Documents) that were opened prior to a shutdown of my PC (Windows Me) would again be automatically re-opened/"restored" as a window (with the usual button on the Start Menu) following the restart (or shutdown/reboot).
That is, when I would open and then minimize an on-screen window for an ordinary "user" folder of documents I was working in (say, somewhere under My Documents), the usual "button" appears on the Start Menu, and I click that button to restore the view for that folder's window.
Well, it used to be that if I leave that folder "open" then restart my PC, it would once again reappear opened, with a button on the Start Menu (until I eventually close the folder window for good, of course).
Since this "feature" quit working, I now have to manually hunt the user folders down again by "navigating" through Windows Explorer, or via multiple/nested folders after every restart to resume working on the documents within it -- a waste of time.
To restore the functionality, I tried using the System Restore function (went back about a week), and also looked for a "folder options" setting, but no luck. I can't find any reference to this type of problem so far at WinGuides, Microsoft, windows-help.net, etc.
To summarize: "user" folders opened in one session are no longer carried over to reappear in the next session following a restart.
That is, when I would open and then minimize an on-screen window for an ordinary "user" folder of documents I was working in (say, somewhere under My Documents), the usual "button" appears on the Start Menu, and I click that button to restore the view for that folder's window.
Well, it used to be that if I leave that folder "open" then restart my PC, it would once again reappear opened, with a button on the Start Menu (until I eventually close the folder window for good, of course).
Since this "feature" quit working, I now have to manually hunt the user folders down again by "navigating" through Windows Explorer, or via multiple/nested folders after every restart to resume working on the documents within it -- a waste of time.
To restore the functionality, I tried using the System Restore function (went back about a week), and also looked for a "folder options" setting, but no luck. I can't find any reference to this type of problem so far at WinGuides, Microsoft, windows-help.net, etc.
To summarize: "user" folders opened in one session are no longer carried over to reappear in the next session following a restart.