how to reposition desktop icons?

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Jeff

Can a VB app reposition desktop icons, move them to different places on the
screen?

How?

Thanks,
Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,

It sound like for one of those seen, by the makers of those, joke
application.

Probably I am wrong, can you let us deal in the purpose of this in a way
that it adds to our knowledge?

Cor
 
I don't understand what you're saying. I'm not trying to do something that
"adds to our knowledge" (whoever 'our' refers to), I'm just trying to
improve an application program. So far all of it is in C++, but VB seems to
have access to some stuff that I haven't been able to find in C++, so I
thought maybe I could use CreateProcess to run a VB app. Right now, the
application makes various configuration changes:

"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties"
Lock the taskbar -- off
Group similar taskbar buttons -- on
Show Quick Launch -- on

Notepad font: Arial 16

Page Setup: all margins .6"

Screen Size: 800x600
This last one uses ChangeDisplaySettingsEx, which reduces the screen size
from 1024x768. But it does not adjust desktop icons. If they're past x=800
or y=600, they become invisible and inaccessible.

This is for a friend of mine who uses a computer at the Senior Center. The
main problem is that his vision is poor -- thus the change in screen size
and font; but he mentioned his page preference, so I added it too. At the
Senior Center, all configuration settings are automatically reset at
shutdown (and all computers are shut down daily), so he has to make the same
changes over and over, every day when he gets there. I told him about the
Zen saying:

novice: What can I do to free myself from eating my porridge and washing my
bowl?
elder: Eat your porridge and wash your bowl.

but he wasn't impressed, since he's not Buddhist. Now he has this app on a
flash drive, so he can just stick in his stick and adjust all the settings
automatically, but I thought it would be nice if it could also move icons
like Excel and the Recycle Bin so they would appear on the desktop with the
decreased screen size.

So anyway, does that answer your question?
 
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