Changing where windows places new icons

All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop. But
they are always save way over on the left. I want them save in the center of
the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally

OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop. But they are always
save way over on the left. I want them save in the center of the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally

Sure. Right click desktop / view / turn off auto arrange.
Then drag your items to where ever.

On 11/8/2015 9:53 PM, OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop. But
they are always save way over on the left. I want them save in the center of
the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally


The Icon Configuration Utility (ICU) from
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/ has the capability of
setting where a new icon on your desktop goes. The primary purpose of
ICU, however, is to save your desktop layout so that you can later
restore it.

--
David E. Ross

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On 09-November-2015 3:53 PM, OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop.
But they are always save way over on the left. I want them save in the
center of the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally

You can also use a program called Fences from Stardock

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

Price is very affordable


Cheers
Erik

In message , David E. Ross
writes:
On 11/8/2015 9:53 PM, OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop. But
they are always save way over on the left. I want them save in the center of
the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally


The Icon Configuration Utility (ICU) from
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/ has the capability of
setting where a new icon on your desktop goes. The primary purpose of
ICU, however, is to save your desktop layout so that you can later
restore it.

Reading that page, I see "You can decide what to do with any icons that
have been added since you last saved the configuration file – the
default is to put them in the top-left corner, but you can also banish
them way off-screen or, more sensibly, specify a location for them." -
which to me sounds as if it lets you specify where _icons that have been
created since you last did a save_, i. e. it moves them there when you
do a restore - not quite what OREALLY wanted, which was to specify where
new ones go _when they're created_.

(I'd never put them in the middle of the screen as that's the most
likely place to be obscured by windows, popups, splash screens ... but
each to his own!)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is.

On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:16:58 -0600, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop. But they are always
save way over on the left. I want them save in the center of the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally

Sure. Right click desktop / view / turn off auto arrange.
Then drag your items to where ever.

But new ones will still appear at the left, working down from the
top. I think the OP wants to change the default "where do new icons
get created" location, but I'm not aware of any way to do that.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...

Stan Brown wrote:
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:16:58 -0600, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop. But they are always
save way over on the left. I want them save in the center of the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally

Sure. Right click desktop / view / turn off auto arrange.
Then drag your items to where ever.

But new ones will still appear at the left, working down from the
top. I think the OP wants to change the default "where do new icons
get created" location, but I'm not aware of any way to do that.

I see. Yea, you are probably correct about op wanting to save to elsewhere.

No way to change Registry to make Windows remember where last saved icon
goes on the DT?

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On 09-November-2015 3:53 PM, OREALLY wrote:
All my shortcuts, saved images, documents etc. are save to my desktop.
But they are always save way over on the left. I want them save in the
center of the desktop. Is this possible?

Oreally

You can also use a program called Fences from Stardock

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

Price is very affordable


Cheers
Erik