Occasionally I have to change my screen resolution temporarily, and when I
change back to my normal screen settings all the icons on my desktop have
been rearranged. I have a lot of them and need them to be in a specific
order. Is there a registry key that holds the icon positions I could export
for purposes of resetting them back to the positions I want them in???

Ted Smith

Ted Smith wrote:
> Occasionally I have to change my screen resolution temporarily, and
> when I change back to my normal screen settings all the icons on my
> desktop have been rearranged. I have a lot of them and need them
> to be in a specific order. Is there a registry key that holds the
> icon positions I could export for purposes of resetting them back
> to the positions I want them in???

Check your Video Card software or find a third party application to
save/restore the locations of the icons.

Don't expect any of them to work 100% all the time.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:47:37 -0500, Ted Smith wrote:

> Occasionally I have to change my screen resolution temporarily, and when I
> change back to my normal screen settings all the icons on my desktop have
> been rearranged. I have a lot of them and need them to be in a specific
> order. Is there a registry key that holds the icon positions I could export
> for purposes of resetting them back to the positions I want them in???
>
> Ted Smith

I follow Shenan Stanley's approach. In particular, I use a free program
called Fences.

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

There are many others. Google for icon position saver or similar.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Ted Smith wrote: > Occasionally I have to change my screen resolution
temporarily, and when I > change back to my normal screen settings all
the icons on my desktop have > been rearranged. I have a lot of them
and need them to be in a specific > order. Is there a registry key
that holds the icon positions I could export > for purposes of
resetting them back to the positions I want them in??? > > Ted Smith

Thank you very much. I'll try that.


"Gene E. Bloch" <not-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:47:37 -0500, Ted Smith wrote:
>
>> Occasionally I have to change my screen resolution temporarily, and when
>> I
>> change back to my normal screen settings all the icons on my desktop have
>> been rearranged. I have a lot of them and need them to be in a specific
>> order. Is there a registry key that holds the icon positions I could
>> export
>> for purposes of resetting them back to the positions I want them in???
>>
>> Ted Smith
>
> I follow Shenan Stanley's approach. In particular, I use a free program
> called Fences.
>
> http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp
>
> There are many others. Google for icon position saver or similar.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Jul 9, 2:47*pm, "Ted Smith" <m...@mynet.net> wrote:
> Occasionally I have to change my screen resolution temporarily, and when I
> change back to my normal screen settings all the icons on my desktop have
> been rearranged. *I have a lot of them and need them to be in a specific
> order. *Is there a registry key that holds the icon positions I could export
> for purposes of resetting them back to the positions I want them in???
>
> Ted Smith

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