Desktop icons - Vista Home Premium 32 bit

[Confused]

Another question from me. I have set up my desktop icons numerous times
in the position I want them but unlike XP there doesn't seem to be an option
to lock them in place. Everytime we switch user accounts on the pc my icons
re-arrange - it's driving me nuts!!!! The only other change I've made -
which I've never done before is increased the size of my icons - could this
be something to do with it???

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Another question from me. I have set up my desktop icons numerous times
in the position I want them but unlike XP there doesn't seem to be an option
to lock them in place. Everytime we switch user accounts on the pc my icons
re-arrange - it's driving me nuts!!!! The only other change I've made -
which I've never done before is increased the size of my icons - could this
be something to do with it???

There are programs available that can memorize your icon positions and
restore them when needed. This might serve you well.

I don't recall the names (I don't use them, myself), but you could maybe
Google for "save desktop" or a similar phrase.

 

[Confused]

Thanks for this Gene. I think I've got it sorted for now but I'll remember
your suggestion for future.

 

[Confused]

Thanks for this - I think it's sorted with H Brown's suggextion see below but
I'll remember this if it re-occurs. Cheers

 

[Confused]

Thank you soooo much - this appears to have sorted it for me..... Turned
off & on a couple of times today and they've stayed put. Here's hoping!!!!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

1. I just read the very informative tutorial on "Fences" that backdrop
pointed to - I might use that program just because it's (IMO) very elegant


2. Yesterday I stumbled onto a couple of links that I had accumulated. One
was, by golly, Fences:
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp

The others were these:
http://www.desksave.de/index.php?lang=en
http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

3. Although I have 60 icons on my desktop (I had perhaps 100 in XP!), and
although they get moved around occasionally (e.g., I had to do a safe boot
the other day & that rearranged the icons), I still don't use these
programs. I think that's weird of me, but what the heck

 

[+Bob+]

3. Although I have 60 icons on my desktop (I had perhaps 100 in XP!), and
although they get moved around occasionally (e.g., I had to do a safe boot
the other day & that rearranged the icons), I still don't use these
programs. I think that's weird of me, but what the heck

I finally got tired of having to resort my icons when Vista (and XP
to a lesser extent) randomly decided on it's own they needed
re-arranging and I installed a desktop saver freebee.

I got to use it today after coming back from sleep mode... when Vista
decided to delete some icons and move others around... once again for
no apparent reason. A quick click brought me back to working mode.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I finally got tired of having to resort my icons when Vista (and XP
to a lesser extent) randomly decided on it's own they needed
re-arranging and I installed a desktop saver freebee.

I got to use it today after coming back from sleep mode... when Vista
decided to delete some icons and move others around... once again for
no apparent reason. A quick click brought me back to working mode.

Here's my theory on my weirdness (this one only, not the others!):

I don't really remember where most of the icons are anyway, so it hardly
matters when they get moved

That's one reason why Fences tempts me over the utilities that just
remember where things are: it creates or facilitates a method of
organization that would be useful for me.

BTW, years ago, I did use one of the desktop memory utilities, but after a
while I came to realize that I had stopped restoring the arrangement.