Anchoring Windows

Anyone know how to change the default location where Windows appear on the
desktop? Example - Alt_Ctrl_Delete displays the "Windows Security" window in
the middle of your blank desktop. Is there a way to get it to default to the
upper left?

Open the Task Manager (taskmgr.exe), drag it where you want it and close it.
Then open it again. It should open in the same location that it was last
closed in.

Same for folders, only use the Close [X] not File | Exit. Windows will
remember the location and the size of the folder if Remember each folder's
view settings is selected in Folder Options. And if something in your
registry isn't messed up.

Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Check: Remember each folder's view settings

Remember each folder's view settings:
[[Specifies that the individual folder settings are retained whenever you
close and then reopen the folder. When this box is not selected, all folder
settings return to the default when the folder is closed and then
reopened.]]

By default, Windows stores the view settings and the customizations for only
400 folders at the same time. This can be changed to 5000 or even 8000.

Your view settings or customizations for a folder are lost or incorrect
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813711

How to modify your folder view settings or to customize a folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812003

2. Increase Folder View Size Limit to 8000
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\Bags

This key has a number of numbered sub-keys, each corresponding to saved
settings for a folder. The bad news is that the numbering is based on the
order in which you opened the folders since you installed XP; there is no
correspondence between name & number.
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from...
Common Tasks Don't Match Folder Type
by Keith Miller
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_common_tasks.htm

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam\Bags\1\Shell, for
example, stores information on Buttons, Columns, Column Info, FFlags*,
FolderType, HotKey, Links, Maximized Position X, Maximized Position Y,
Minimized Position X, Minimized Position Y, Mode, Rev, Sort, Sort Direction,
Vid**, WFlags***, Window Position bottom, Window Position left, Window
Position right, Window Position top.

* FFlags A set of flags that specify folder view options.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649291.aspx

**valid view identifiers (VIDs)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632469.aspx

***WFlags
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...owseObject.asp

This is not complete and some of it may be downright incorrect.

Buttons: Customized Toolbar buttons
Col: Displayed columns in Details view?
ColInfo: Column Info. Order of displayed columns in Details view?
Or maybe Col & ColInfo may have to do with the number of rows and columns
for icon layout.
FFlags: Auto Arrange, Snap To Grid, etc.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649291.aspx
FolderType: Documents, Pictures, Photos, Music, Videos.
HotKey:
Links:
MaxPos1024x768(1).x: Maximized Position X based on screen resolution.
1024x768 is mine.
MaxPos1024x768(1).y: Maximized Position Y based on screen resolution.
MinPos1024x768(1).x: Minimized Position X based on screen resolution.
MinPos1024x768(1).y: Minimized Position Y based on screen resolution.
Mode:
Rev:
ScrollPos1024x768(1).x & ScrollPos1024x768(1).y: x and y coordinates (rows
and columns)? Based on screen resolution.
ShowCmd: Normal, minimized or maximized window.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa464587.aspx
Sort: Sort by from properties available in the Arrange Icons By menu. By
type, size, name. etc.
SortDir: Sort direction, up or down. Z-A or A-Z.
Vid: Large Icons, Small Icons, List, Details, Tile.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632469.aspx
WFlags: Same window, new window, etc.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...owseObject.asp
WinPos1024x768(1).bottom: Window bottom Position based on screen resolution.
WinPos1024x768(1).left: Window left Position based on screen resolution.
WinPos1024x768(1).right: Window right Position based on screen resolution.
WinPos1024x768(1).top: Window top Position based on screen resolution.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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MarcusG hunted and pecked:
Anyone know how to change the default location where Windows appear on the
desktop? Example - Alt_Ctrl_Delete displays the "Windows Security"
window in the middle of your blank desktop. Is there a way to get it to
default to the upper left?