Finder-Not holding view settings in the Application Folder

Hi all

I wonder if any of you can help me.

I cannot get finder to hold my view settings in the Applications folder. I have tried all the view options and whenever I relaunch Finder or reboot the machine, it loses the view settings and goes back to 'arrange' and 'sort' by 'none' I have tried creating another user account and it does the same thing so it is

not user specific. I have tried deleting the .ds.store file in the Applications folder and this does not work. As a matter of interest, this has been an ongoing problem that I have noticed when setting up new Macbook Pros over the last two years or so.

All other folders hold their settings. Its just the Applications folder.

Any ideas folks?