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Extended Tiles - broken - any fix?
The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but
the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera. My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not. I love this view! Halp! |
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Extended Tiles - broken - any fix?
Actually, if you look again, you may be the one with the choice for Extended
Tiles, and your wife's View menu just lists Tiles. Your view of Computer is a corruption of the Computer view's folder template. There are only a small number of windows that offer Extended Tiles; Control Panel\Manage Wireless Networks and Control Panel\Sync Center are a couple that I can think of. Otherwise, in Explorer windows, the look is quite goofy (I think it has some oblique mention of Offline Files, or something, either in the tile icon itself, or in the Details pane). Once your folder views start this sort of corruption, it gets worse from there. (For example, I've had the Windows folder using a Music Details template, which can't be changed using Customize, because that tab isn't available in the Windows folder's Properties, the "Uninstall or Change a Program" Control Panel using the Contacts folder template (with Import and Export [contacts] in the Toolbar), just to name a couple of my own folder view glitches, not to mention the odd Extended Tiles View in Explorer folders. Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders. That being said, deleting the following two keys in the registry, will give you a clean slate, and reset your folders to the defaults. (All remembered folder settings in Windows Explorer for view state, window position, sort order, column information, folder type, toolbar toggles, and search result views will be lost, just so you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will also be deleted). The keys in Vista a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU (right-click on the key BagMRU, in the left pane, and choose delete) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags (right-click on the key Bags, in the left pane, and choose delete) Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done automatically), and start anew. "Michael Hainsworth" wrote in message ... The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera. My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not. I love this view! Halp! |
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Extended Tiles - broken - any fix?
Thanks! Worked like a charm.
"dean-dean" wrote: Actually, if you look again, you may be the one with the choice for Extended Tiles, and your wife's View menu just lists Tiles. Your view of Computer is a corruption of the Computer view's folder template. There are only a small number of windows that offer Extended Tiles; Control Panel\Manage Wireless Networks and Control Panel\Sync Center are a couple that I can think of. Otherwise, in Explorer windows, the look is quite goofy (I think it has some oblique mention of Offline Files, or something, either in the tile icon itself, or in the Details pane). Once your folder views start this sort of corruption, it gets worse from there. (For example, I've had the Windows folder using a Music Details template, which can't be changed using Customize, because that tab isn't available in the Windows folder's Properties, the "Uninstall or Change a Program" Control Panel using the Contacts folder template (with Import and Export [contacts] in the Toolbar), just to name a couple of my own folder view glitches, not to mention the odd Extended Tiles View in Explorer folders. Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders. That being said, deleting the following two keys in the registry, will give you a clean slate, and reset your folders to the defaults. (All remembered folder settings in Windows Explorer for view state, window position, sort order, column information, folder type, toolbar toggles, and search result views will be lost, just so you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will also be deleted). The keys in Vista a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU (right-click on the key BagMRU, in the left pane, and choose delete) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags (right-click on the key Bags, in the left pane, and choose delete) Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done automatically), and start anew. "Michael Hainsworth" wrote in message ... The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera. My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not. I love this view! Halp! |
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This did not work for me. I tried it several times, and even rebooted. I had this problem a few days ago, and managed to get it to go away for a day. Not sure what I did, but I thought going to Tools-Folder Options and clicking "Restore Defaults" on every tab is what fixed it. However, the problem came back and I can't get it to go away by "Restore Defaults" or deleting said registry keys.... Any ideas?
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Eddie Bishop wrote: This did not work for me. I tried it several times, and even rebooted. I had this problem a few days ago, and managed to get it to go away for a day. Not sure what I did, but I thought going to Tools-Folder Options and clicking "Restore Defaults" on every tab is what fixed it. However, the problem came back and I can't get it to go away by "Restore Defaults" or deleting said registry keys.... Any ideas? EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com What didn't work for you? It would be better if you followed up in the original thread. |
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EggHead posters are posting from a broken interface, generally only one or
two messages from an entire thread make it here and our replies do not make it back to them. Sadly, it is often best to just ignore them. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "GreenieLeBrun" wrote in message ... Eddie Bishop wrote: This did not work for me. I tried it several times, and even rebooted. I had this problem a few days ago, and managed to get it to go away for a day. Not sure what I did, but I thought going to Tools-Folder Options and clicking "Restore Defaults" on every tab is what fixed it. However, the problem came back and I can't get it to go away by "Restore Defaults" or deleting said registry keys.... Any ideas? EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com What didn't work for you? It would be better if you followed up in the original thread. |
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Extended Tiles - broken - any fix?
Deleting the specified Registry keys did not work for me. I still don't see the disk space bars in explorer when viewing the hard disks, etc. The "Computer" view in Explorer has an "Extended Tiles" view available -- a corruption according to the post I am replying to. I even tried this: 1. boot into safe mode 2. In regedit, I searched for "BagMRU" and deleted -all- instances of it until running a registry search for "BagMRU" turned up no results. And whenever I found a key next to "BagMRU" named "Bags", I deleted it, too. 3. logged off and back on. I've searched and searched on the internet, and everyone seems to get this problem fixed by deleting these registry keys.... but doing so didn't fix it for me. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks. dean-dean;317432 Wrote: Actually, if you look again, you may be the one with the choice for Extended Tiles, and your wife's View menu just lists Tiles. Your view of Computer is a corruption of the Computer view's folder template. There are only a small number of windows that offer Extended Tiles; Control Panel\Manage Wireless Networks and Control Panel\Sync Center are a couple that I can think of. Otherwise, in Explorer windows, the look is quite goofy (I think it has some oblique mention of Offline Files, or something, either in the tile icon itself, or in the Details pane). Once your folder views start this sort of corruption, it gets worse from there. (For example, I've had the Windows folder using a Music Details template, which can't be changed using Customize, because that tab isn't available in the Windows folder's Properties, the "Uninstall or Change a Program" Control Panel using the Contacts folder template (with Import and Export [contacts] in the Toolbar), just to name a couple of my own folder view glitches, not to mention the odd Extended Tiles View in Explorer folders. Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders. That being said, deleting the following two keys in the registry, will give you a clean slate, and reset your folders to the defaults. (All remembered folder settings in Windows Explorer for view state, window position, sort order, column information, folder type, toolbar toggles, and search result views will be lost, just so you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will also be deleted). The keys in Vista a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU (right-click on the key BagMRU, in the left pane, and choose delete) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags (right-click on the key Bags, in the left pane, and choose delete) Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done automatically), and start anew. "Michael Hainsworth" wrote in message ... The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera. My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not. I love this view! Halp! -- eddified |
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Extended Tiles - broken - any fix?
It's 2014 and I found this old post dealing with Vista. I had the same problem in Windows 7 and couldn't find any solution that worked. Throwing caution to the wind I backed up my registry and gave this a try. It worked. my Manage Wireless Networks folder was displaying in Detail view, and following your procedure restored the view to Extended Tiles. Thank you.
On Monday, May 21, 2007 8:05:40 PM UTC-4, dean-dean wrote: Actually, if you look again, you may be the one with the choice for Extended Tiles, and your wife's View menu just lists Tiles. Your view of Computer is a corruption of the Computer view's folder template. There are only a small number of windows that offer Extended Tiles; Control Panel\Manage Wireless Networks and Control Panel\Sync Center are a couple that I can think of. Otherwise, in Explorer windows, the look is quite goofy (I think it has some oblique mention of Offline Files, or something, either in the tile icon itself, or in the Details pane). Once your folder views start this sort of corruption, it gets worse from there. (For example, I've had the Windows folder using a Music Details template, which can't be changed using Customize, because that tab isn't available in the Windows folder's Properties, the "Uninstall or Change a Program" Control Panel using the Contacts folder template (with Import and Export [contacts] in the Toolbar), just to name a couple of my own folder view glitches, not to mention the odd Extended Tiles View in Explorer folders. Vista is set up to "remember" 5000 folders. That being said, deleting the following two keys in the registry, will give you a clean slate, and reset your folders to the defaults. (All remembered folder settings in Windows Explorer for view state, window position, sort order, column information, folder type, toolbar toggles, and search result views will be lost, just so you know what to expect; but any corruption, which indeed does happen, will also be deleted). The keys in Vista a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU (right-click on the key BagMRU, in the left pane, and choose delete) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags (right-click on the key Bags, in the left pane, and choose delete) Log off and log back on to Windows to re-create the keys (done automatically), and start anew. "Michael Hainsworth" wrote in message ... The "Computer" window used to display as Extended Tiles. It still does, but the tiles are no longer "extended" -- they don't show the size of my hard disks or the remaining capacity, etcetera. My wife's account still displays Extended Tiles correctly, but mine does not. I love this view! Halp! |