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GregMeathead
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Enthusiast

hot to change default columns in vmachines view?

How can i change default columns that are being displayed when i open vMachives view tab.

every time i open vcenter all my settings are lost and i have to add columns, remove others, is there a way to keep it?

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Troy_Clavell
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Immortal

these settings should stick if you are connecting to a vCenter4 instance. However, if using the client to connect to a VI3 vCenter Server, the settings get a little skewed because there are views in vCenter4, that are not present in vCenter2.5. Do you have multiple vCenter instances you connect to?

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GregMeathead
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I have only one vCenter and the settings do not stick, they always revert to default after i close vCenter client and re-open it

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Troy_Clavell
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I have only seen this as I described above. Is the client the same build as your vCenter Server you are connecting to?

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GregMeathead
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Enthusiast

Yep, all is 4U1, one vCenter Server, one client on a laptop.

Maybe other people have the same issue

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GregMeathead
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Enthusiast

Any ideas of how to save columns, prevent them from defaulting back?

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jsauter
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Contributor

I am also having this problem. The registry string is correct and stays after a shutdown, restart, open VC and just when i click on the "Virtual Machine" tab it reverts back to default.  I have tried multiple machines, OS's, users(including local). Something is changing the registry string back to default.   

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Jwoods
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Anyone resolve this issue or have any leads?  Experiencing the same problem and it's quite a bit of an annoyance.  Sometimes the columns reset to default when simply going from cluster to datacenter then back.

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Jwoods
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Expert

Found a KB resolution to this issue posted back in April pointing to GPO blockage.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1030614

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