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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.] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "I'm a self-made man, thereby demonstrating once again the perils of unskilled labor..." - Harlan Ellison |
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