Desktop icons

(Saving [and restoring!] the position of.)

In message , Lee
writes:
NT4 came with layout.dll method which works a treat with 98 too.
http://stevehealy.org/techblog/?p=162

Note that .reg files included are for 9x and not NT5+. These reg files
can be made to work on NT by changing the REGEDIT4 header for the NT5+
header
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
as NT5 and above will not accept REGEDIT4 header on reg files.

Thanks for that: seems to work the simplest of all, and I like the idea
of using something that is (I presume) of Microsoft origin (though the
download isn't from them).

(a) I don't know where it saves the (single?) layout - I'm guessing in
the registry, as with so much else - so you can't protect a saved layout
(only DesktopOK, that I know of, gives the option of saving it in a
file.)
(b) One of the followup posters says nothing happens if you use it in
(an) Aero theme; it says switching to a basic one to use it and then
back works, but I suspect that'd be sufficiently tedious that one of the
others (iconoid, DesktopOK, or the other one someone mentioned) would
probably easier, if you use an Aero theme.

With my Windows 7 32 bit, I didn't have to edit the .reg file at all as
described above: it merged fine (and the utility works). [I haven't
tried the uninstall one.]
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