Restore icon positions vista

They jump right back to where they were usually --sometimes I have to move a couple manually but I have dozens of icons. Pretty nifty little tool. Downloads are at the bottom of the page. Threats include any threat of suicide, violence, or harm to another. Any content of an adult theme or inappropriate to a community web site. Any image, link, or discussion of nudity. Any behavior that is insulting, rude, vulgar, desecrating, or showing disrespect.

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Hey thanks a lot for this one mate. I use my TV connected to the graphics card and watch a lot of stuff that way.. Cheers, bookmarking your site too, useful! When I restored the icons using this program after saving them, of course , the background was black until I refreshed it, and then I only had a single background image and not the slide show. I had to go back and select the folder in which I had stored the slide show images, and then the slide show mode was turned back on.

Your email address will not be published. All Rights Reserved. Same thing happens if I boot Vista into safe mode and use my account instead of the administrator's account. Really frustrating to reorganize a couple of dozen icons back to where you think they were.

It should be trivial to save that part of the registry that tracks these icon postions and restores them on demand. The same thing also happens if you play games that change the resolution You wouldn't believe the amount of times people ask about this I think I might write an article about it.

Works great! If you want to save the desktop icon positions, you should right-click the desktop! So add this to the layout. And please write the article. An old thread, but the additional registry entry doesn't work for right-clicking my desktop. Iann W. Hi All who are having this problem.

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