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I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I
could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in place. No more if I ever could. Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then How do I make them stay as I want them to. Thanks. |
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swalker wrote:
I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in place. No more if I ever could. Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then How do I make them stay as I want them to. Thanks. Get Desktop Restore directly from the maker and not from a third party spam, trojan, site. Go he http://www.midiox.com/ It can be done manually but, imo, it's not worth effort of rebuilding the registry every time the icons move around. |
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On 7/3/2018 4:44 PM, swalker wrote:
I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in place. No more if I ever could. Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then How do I make them stay as I want them to. Thanks. I've been using DesktopOK since I bought a Win7 computer and my old icon restorer no longer worked. It's at https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK -- Jo-Anne |
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:41:51 -0500, Jo-Anne
wrote: How do I make them stay as I want them to. Thanks. I've been using DesktopOK since I bought a Win7 computer and my old icon restorer no longer worked. It's at https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK And it also works very well in Windows 10. |
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swalker wrote:
I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in place. No more if I ever could. Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then How do I make them stay as I want them to. Nope, never been a lock icon position option. They're moving about probably because you are changing screen resolution whether overtly or perhaps due to playing a video game. You need a 3rd party tool to record icon positions and restore them to that layout when they get moved. Others already recommended some 3rd party tools. Some others that I've heard about (but never used) a IconRestorer, Iconoid, Nimi Places, and Stardock Fences. |
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In message , VanguardLH
writes: swalker wrote: I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in place. No more if I ever could. Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then How do I make them stay as I want them to. Nope, never been a lock icon position option. They're moving about And it's been a problem since at least '95 (I _think_ 3.1 didn't suffer from the problem). You're probably remembering having had a 3rd-party utility - I don't remember any of them having a lock option, but all have a (save, obviously and) restore option. probably because you are changing screen resolution whether overtly or perhaps due to playing a video game. You need a 3rd party tool to It _can_ happen with less obvious causes, too. record icon positions and restore them to that layout when they get moved. Others already recommended some 3rd party tools. Some others that I've heard about (but never used) a IconRestorer, Iconoid, Nimi Places, and Stardock Fences. My favourite was the one from Melissa Nguyen - something like EasyDesk; however, it doesn't work on 7. I've found iconoid (from sillysot) and DesktopOK work fine; DesktopOK is the only one (that I know of - I haven't tried all of the above) that can actually save to and restore from a real file on disc (though that's not its default method), as opposed to storing in the registry. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. |
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:02:10 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote: On 03/07/2018 22:44, swalker wrote: I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in place. No more if I ever could. Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then How do I make them stay as I want them to. Thanks. Right-Click View Align Icons to Grid. This settings never moves icons "every now and then". The problem is there are some idiots like that Arlen Pedo who has removed almost everything from his machine because he stupidly believed that Microsoft is spying on him and recording everything about his activities of abusing young boys. Path: news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nnt p.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.x s4all.nl!85.12.16.70.MISMATCH!peer03.ams1!peer.ams 1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.hig hwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!fx39.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: swalker Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general Subject: Lock desktop icons Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 180703-2, 07/03/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 11 X-Complaints-To: Organization: Forte - www.forteinc.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:44:14 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 1135 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2741868041 X-Original-Bytes: 871 Xref: news.mixmin.net alt.windows7.general:93576 /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ I'm not getting your images; and how do I wordwrap your curious format? |
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Peter Jason wrote:
I'm not getting your images; and how do I wordwrap your curious format? You can use the archive here. Enter a MID to search. http://al.howardknight.net/ This is the previous post. http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi....mixmin.net%3E HowardKnight was forced to truncate long posts, to prevent the server from becoming a "transit" server for movie content. The closing MIME line might be missing from the sample posting. Paul |
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:54:06 +1000, Peter Jason wrote:
I'm not getting your images; and how do I wordwrap your curious format? If you are using Forte Agent, clicking View / Word Wrap works for me. |
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 09:41:27 +1000, Monty
wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:54:06 +1000, Peter Jason wrote: I'm not getting your images; and how do I wordwrap your curious format? If you are using Forte Agent, clicking View / Word Wrap works for me. I am but it doesn't seem to work for the curious-format posts of Old Guy |
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