respecting the desktop icon arragement just never made design priority?

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Bob

I'm running W2K with the latest service pack and all the updates.

Sometimes the OS crashes so bad that there is an immediate reboot without any
warning, thanks to an application that I have no choice but to use. When I log
back in all my icons are then autoarranged. I really, truly hate this. Regardles
of inadvertant resolution changes, power outages, insta-crashes... I just want
the icons to stay put unless I rearrange them myself. After all these years of
Windows, is this really too much to ask?

Bob
 
Bob said:
Read my post again. I said that the saved settings are tossed on a
self-rebooting crash.
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I read it, and nowhere does it say that "I arrange the icons, successfully
shut down the computer/log off at least one time so that my icon arrangement
is stored to my ntuser.dat file."
That's vaguely rude considering you didn't put much thought into your answer.
Then again, one tends to follow the other.
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You are correct that it was rude, which I will usually try to stay away
from, but if you come in here attacking Microsoft for your lack of
understanding and because you have to run some junky software the crashes
your system, I will defend them.

Ray at work
 
Okay, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you really don't
understand at all the point of what I'm talking about.

Say I have shut down my computer, properly, a bunch of times, every time with my
icons in a certain arrangemet which doesn't change. Everything is fine.

Then something happens where I encounter a self-rebooting crash. When I log back
in, either the icon configuration is physically lost, or Windows itself just
engages autoarrgange. Regardless of which is the case, I now have to shuffle the
icons all around again to their original positions.

So how does this
I read it, and nowhere does it say that "I arrange the icons, successfully
shut down the computer/log off at least one time so that my icon arrangement
is stored to my ntuser.dat file."
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pertain at all to the problem? You are only telling me to just go ahead and
rearrange the icons again back to their original positions and reboot every time
this happens. Not much of a solution, is it?
You are correct that it was rude, which I will usually try to stay away
from, but if you come in here attacking Microsoft for your lack of
understanding and because you have to run some junky software the crashes
your system, I will defend them.
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The whole point of my post is that crashes can cause the problem, and gee,
woudn't it be great if Windows had a built-in mechanism to better gaurd agaisnt
it. Why do you find this so offensive, exactly how do you think I'm not
understanding something, and why are you even posting when you're not offering
any useful information? Don't be a troll.

Bob
 
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