Array of icons on Desktop

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William Lurie

Maybe this is trivia, but maybe I'm not alone in caring.
In going to LCD monitor, and changing resolution, I find that XP
rearranges my 25-odd icons and I have to put them all back.
Is there a way of saving a desktop as my Default and resetting things to
that Default when they go awry?
 
Maybe this is trivia, but maybe I'm not alone in caring.
In going to LCD monitor, and changing resolution, I find that XP
rearranges my 25-odd icons and I have to put them all back.
Is there a way of saving a desktop as my Default and resetting things to
that Default when they go awry?
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Glen Ventura http://dts-l.net/ posted Nov. 27:
 
(Answer re-submitted from thread: "Desktop Icons" - alt.windowsxp.general)

This is quite a common question - and the answer is NO!

Windows (all versions but especially XP) has a habit of re-positioning
icons (i.e. forgetting your custom arrangement) at undetermined intervals.

The only way we have agreed upon to make any semi-permanent arrangement is
to re-name each desktop shortcut so that it either starts with a number or
number-letter combination so that when you select...

"right-click" > Arrange Icons By > Name

....on your desktop, the icons will be arranged in the order you want them
to be in.

Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear, but it's my best suggestion.

(Although, a google search may turn up some sort of third-party app)

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
One response above gave a reference to a specific download which,
although free and enticing, I have so far found oompossible to implement.
 
It's designed for users who have at least a basic low-level knowledge of
computers.
 
The right-click menu says;

"Arrange Icons By >"
Name
Size
Type
Modified
Attributes
----------
Auto Arrange
Align to Grid

....and not;

"Right click
Arrange icons
Align to grid"

The main difference that I can see, being that you have to "Arrange Icons
By" something?! (e.g. Name, Size, etc.,)....

However, one tends to move icons about so that they do not conform to any
automatic criteria sorting.

It is when the icons have been placed in such a unique arrangement that the
problem arises when something like a crash jumbles all the icons up
forgetting your preferred placement of them.

There is no-known cure for this although some have had a go at making
suggestions like mine about re-naming all your icons preceding them with a
number - so if they become "unglued", you can "Arrange Icons By >" Name to
get them back in order.

Then again some would say that the 3rd-party applications written for just
this purpose are the way to go....

Whatever - the desktop icons certainly do not stay put in 99.99999% of
reported cases and, if they did, people wouldn't feel the need to write
bloody applications to sort it out!

It may just be that your preferred arrangement of icons are coincidentally
arranged by "Name" anyway - in which case they wouldn't move, as that's the
default arrangement that they get put back to after a "mishap" !!

Or just maybe you are the 0.00001%...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
Just right click desktop
Arrange Icons By
UnCheck
Auto Arrange
Align To Grid

Check
Lock web Items on Desttop
is all you have to do!
 
Again - if it were that simple - why do programmers spend time creating
3rd-party solutions to a problem that 99.99999% of PC users experience
through every incarnation of the Windows OS?!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
To give out 3rd-party Spyware is why 45% of programmers spend so much time
creating solutions to a problem that a no problem!

And there Two solutions
One is rearranges 25-odd icons and I have to put them all back then Screen
Capture,
Then make a Image Map and SAVE AS A HTM file, remove all the 25-odd icons
from Desktop,
Right Click on Desktop Click on Active Desktop, Click on Customize my
Desktop,
Check View my Active Desktop as a web page, Click on New, Look for your HTM
File click on it!
And Click on Effects Tab
and Check Hide icons when the desktop is Viewed as a Web page!
Click Apply OK

For there no programmers 3rd-party Software can creating solutions to a
problem but you!

solution Two is creating your on program with do_it_yourself_kit.exe or
script_center.exe by Microsoft

But Tim Meddick that is for programmers like you and I <Hmm
 
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