icon layout saver

I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and
to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it
doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

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Thank you,

Jo-Anne

"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the layout
of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and to change
and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it doesn't work
on the new Windows 7 computer.





ICU Icon Configuration Utility
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/

"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the layout
of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and to change
and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it doesn't work
on the new Windows 7 computer.





ICU Icon Configuration Utility
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/
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~Bruce

Jo-Anne wrote:

I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and
to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it
doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

Fences
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

on 4/11/2015, Jo-Anne supposed :
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the layout of
my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and to change and
save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it doesn't work on the
new Windows 7 computer.

DesktopOK 4.05

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

New in version 4.05 // April 6th 2015
New option: Options, Save options, Custom text
Small adjustments in Desktop-OK, and new language: Catalan.

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Zo

Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in
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"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up)
and to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP,
but it doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.





ICU Icon Configuration Utility
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/


I use this one, too, and it's great. Freeware, to boot.

On 4/11/2015 7:21 PM, Bruce Hagen wrote:
"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the layout
of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and to
change
and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it doesn't
work
on the new Windows 7 computer.



ICU Icon Configuration Utility
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/


Hi, Bruce,

It works! Thank you very much. (At first, when I unzipped the program
and tried to use it, I got a long error message. I tried again, and the
second time it worked.) I did a Save and then moved an icon and said to
restore, and it went back to where it belonged. Perfect.

For what it's worth, this was the error message:

Problem signatu
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ICU.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4f25baec
Fault Module Name: ICU.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4f25baec
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0002e211
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Read our privacy statement online:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?link...8&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our
privacy statement offline:
C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

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Jo-Anne

On 4/11/2015 7:43 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Jo-Anne wrote:

I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and
to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it
doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

Fences
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/


Thank you, Vanguard! I just installed the one suggested by Bruce. I've
saved this link, though, in case I don't like the other one.

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Jo-Anne

On 4/11/2015 7:51 PM, Zo wrote:
on 4/11/2015, Jo-Anne supposed :
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up)
and to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP,
but it doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

DesktopOK 4.05

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

New in version 4.05 // April 6th 2015
New option: Options, Save options, Custom text
Small adjustments in Desktop-OK, and new language: Catalan.


Thank you, Zo. I've installed the one suggested by Bruce but have made a
note about this one.

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Jo-Anne

On 4/11/2015 5:15 PM, Jo-Anne wrote:
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and
to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it
doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.


My experience is that none of the desktop icon savers are perfect. I
have both Icon Cofiguration Utility (ICU) and dips64 and use both
whenever I change the layout of my desktop icons. This way, I hope to
be able to restore my layout no matter how mangled it gets.

You already have ICU. dips64 is available at
http://amip.tools-for.net/files/dips64/.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

In message , Jo-Anne
writes:
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and
to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it
doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

Would that be the venerable EZDesk (1.8-sw from 1997!)? Yes, I was sad
when it wouldn't work in 7, it having worked since W95. I use iconoid
from sillysot, which seems to do the job well enough, without excessive
extras. (But the other suggestions probably do too.)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Grammar is there to help, not hinder."
-- Mark Wallace, APIHNA, 2nd December 2000 (quoted by John Flynn 2000-12-6)

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:51:54 -0400, Zo wrote:

on 4/11/2015, Jo-Anne supposed :
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the layout of
my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and to change and
save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it doesn't work on the
new Windows 7 computer.

DesktopOK 4.05

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

New in version 4.05 // April 6th 2015
New option: Options, Save options, Custom text
Small adjustments in Desktop-OK, and new language: Catalan.

+1
Unlimited saves, plus it saves per screen resolution.
And it's free. use the Unicode version.
[]'s
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We have a new policy - Google 2012

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:36:24 -0500, Jo-Anne
wrote:

On 4/11/2015 7:51 PM, Zo wrote:
on 4/11/2015, Jo-Anne supposed :
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up)
and to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP,
but it doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

DesktopOK 4.05

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

New in version 4.05 // April 6th 2015
New option: Options, Save options, Custom text
Small adjustments in Desktop-OK, and new language: Catalan.


Thank you, Zo. I've installed the one suggested by Bruce but have made a
note about this one.

Try it. It's portable, so if you don't like it all you have to
do is delete the folder you put the executable in.
[]'s
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We have a new policy - Google 2012

On 4/12/2015 6:32 AM, Shadow wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:36:24 -0500, Jo-Anne
wrote:

On 4/11/2015 7:51 PM, Zo wrote:
on 4/11/2015, Jo-Anne supposed :
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up)
and to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP,
but it doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.

DesktopOK 4.05

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

New in version 4.05 // April 6th 2015
New option: Options, Save options, Custom text
Small adjustments in Desktop-OK, and new language: Catalan.


Thank you, Zo. I've installed the one suggested by Bruce but have made a
note about this one.

Try it. It's portable, so if you don't like it all you have to
do is delete the folder you put the executable in.
[]'s

Thank you, Shadow. I didn't realize there were several icon layout
savers available. You'd think Microsoft would allow one to do this easily...

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Jo-Anne

On 4/12/2015 1:24 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 4/11/2015 5:15 PM, Jo-Anne wrote:
I'm looking for a simple program that will allow me to restore the
layout of my desktop icons in Windows 7 (when Windows screws it up) and
to change and save the layout when I want to. I have one for XP, but it
doesn't work on the new Windows 7 computer.


My experience is that none of the desktop icon savers are perfect. I
have both Icon Cofiguration Utility (ICU) and dips64 and use both
whenever I change the layout of my desktop icons. This way, I hope to
be able to restore my layout no matter how mangled it gets.

You already have ICU. dips64 is available at
http://amip.tools-for.net/files/dips64/.


Thank you, David. Should this link open a page that shows an index of
four files--one of which is the .exe?

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Jo-Anne