Saving desktop - layout et al

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I do some fairly substantial customzing of my desktop, where I display a
large number of icons, customize the icons and font size, etc..

When I have occasion to do something like boot into safe mode, the display
of course gets pretty well changed, and when I reboot into my normal mode,
the icons are totally rearranged. Then of course I have to sort that all
out, and place them where I want them.

I know I can save a desktop "theme". But, is it possible to save the
complete desktop, including the position of all the icons, etc.? This would
save me time after getting them jumbled, if I could just reload that saved
setting.

Ron Hirsch

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I found that if I keep my desktop icons up away from the bottom of the
screen, they don't get moved around when I switch resolution or enter safe
mode. (At a lower resolution, you can't fit as many rows onscreen.) Some
games apparently change resolution when going fullscreen and that sometimes
messed with the arrangement also. I still have them rearrange for no
apparent reason, but it's very rare now.

"Drew Tognola" <drewtognola@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Ron,
>
> I use WinTidy 2.0. The program was free when I first downloaded it. Now
> there is a small fee to PC Magazine. Works great though. I'm sure there
> are similar free apps out there. Here's the download site.
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,17748,00.asp
>
> Drew
>
> "Ron Hirsch" <ronhirsch@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:%23v5b2y4iFHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>I do some fairly substantial customzing of my desktop, where I display a
>>large number of icons, customize the icons and font size, etc..
>>
>> When I have occasion to do something like boot into safe mode, the
>> display of course gets pretty well changed, and when I reboot into my
>> normal mode, the icons are totally rearranged. Then of course I have to
>> sort that all out, and place them where I want them.
>>
>> I know I can save a desktop "theme". But, is it possible to save the
>> complete desktop, including the position of all the icons, etc.? This
>> would save me time after getting them jumbled, if I could just reload
>> that saved setting.
>>
>> Ron Hirsch
>>
>
>

I have not been able to find it but right here on Tom's there was an article and a tiny free app that added "save desktop" and "restore desktop" to context menu- I have a copy and need to dig it up for my new laptop. It was very simple and would also save for different res- so if you could save for single monitor or multi monitor.

do not know why it is so hard to find now- have not even had luck using Google

C