Applications Folder never saves Default Appearance Settings

Dear all,
It seems that my Application folder never saves the default appearance settings. Every time I restart my mac, the application folder is really messed up... It doesn't open in icon mode, the Macintosh, Network and remaining icons appear on the left, and the applications are not indexed by name. Why's that? Any special workaround on this?
Thank you in advance.

Open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run the following:
sudo chmod a+rw /Applications/.DS_Store
Press Enter and type in your administrator password; after logging out and back in, changes made to the folder's icon positions and view settings should stick.
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