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Old February 7th 10, 05:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Icons locations

In message , thanatoid
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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In message ,
thanatoid writes:


SNIP

Ooh, who got out of bed the wrong side this morning?


My bed does not have a "right" side. They're all (all 4) wrong.
I should have never been born.


Oh, I know that, through long association in the '9x 'groups! Still, you
do occasionally cheer up (-:.

To do
what the OP wanted - i. e. keep desktop icons where they
have been put - I'd say both are fine; your iconsaver is
probably another such. (I've just looked at its homepage -
the "main features" list sounds identical to both of the
above, though I'm not sure what you'd need hotkeys or an
icon position editor for.)


You don't which is why I use the free version from 1998.
Still, these new features (WHY can't authors leave well enough
alone?) are nothing compared to the crap that comes with the
other programs we have been talking about.


I can't really see any such extras in EZdesk: it just has a save and
restore, per resolution, of icon positions. (OK, it has a "run" command
history, but I can't imagine that has much effect on its size.)

I've also found that the icons get shuffled unexpectedly a
lot less in XP than they did in '98 (even lite).


True, still no reason to use that demented product if you can
avoid it.


Remember where you're posting (-:

If I EVER manage to clean up my drive, I am installing Linux.

Although after ****ing around with XP for a month or so and
asking a few questions here and there (before almost everyone
plonked me), I have made it manageable and almost bearable.


It is indeed possible to make it so. (As for plonking you, no - like
Marvin the paranoid android, and before him Eeyore, ...)

Still annoying, but not as annoying as the way it comes out of
the box, which is nothing but "BOB 2".


Indeed. Not to mention how Vista and 7 look!
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