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Old February 9th 10, 08:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Tim Meddick
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You could also be creative with renaming your desktop icons with *names* that begin
with letters that perform the same result as using the numbered solution...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"thanatoid" wrote in message
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"Tim Meddick" wrote in
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I think the best (and cheapest) way, is to re-name your
desktop icons, preceding each name with a number - i.e. :

rename "My Computer" to "1 My Computer"
rename "My Documents" to "2 My Documents"
rename "CD Drive (D)" to "3 CD Drive (D)"
rename "Internet Explorer" to "4 Internet Explorer"


So far, tolerable, although may add an extra line not to mention
ugly numericals...

rename "Adobe Reader 9" to "5 Adobe Reader 9"


AUUGH!!! What if for some reason you need TWO versions of the
same program?

2.1 Word 4
2.2 Word 7

???

AAAAUUUUUUUGH!!!!!!!!!

...so that the first icon on the screen corresponds to
renaming it with a preceding "1", the second with "2", etc.

Then, when they become "unstuck", as they so often do
(hence all the apps to set things straight), all you have
to do is right-click on desktop Arrange Icons By Name
...to get them back in the desired order!


Not a bad idea aside from the aesthetic aspect, but it won't
work if you have the icons scattered all over in logical groups
related to program type, use, frequency of use, etc. - as at
least one person I know does.

All other people's computers I have personally seen have the
default Windows color scheme and the default Windows icons in
the default 'vertical line on the left' order.

And I am the only person I know (correction, a couple of weeks
ago someone mentioned they had the same - but that's the first
/ever/) who has the taskbar vertically on the left (which has
nothing to do with the vertical line of icons on the left I just
mentioned, since, as I already mentioned, I mentioned I have
them in groups in various places all over the desktop. Did I
mention that?

(Sorry... I am involved in a mind-numbing session with a moron
in another group...


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The arrows are faster than rodents!
- t.


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