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One of the most annoying things I have found about Vista is the file explorer. It constantly changes the views of folders and way too often sets the columns in a folder as if the folder contains photos when it doesn't.  To me that is really disappointing and undermines any confidence I could have in Microsoft producing a stable safe OS... the fundamental tasks an OS must do is work with hardware and manage files. If they can't surface that with a stable UI then something seriously is wrong there.  I had hoped SP1 would fix the issue, alas it did not. But thanks to some MVPs I saw a link to a site that suggested a registry tweak to fix the problem.. and it did :)

The fix is to add this registry key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified"