Control of Icon Screen Position

[Ted Smith]

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

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

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.

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

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

 

[Ted Smith]

Thank you very much. I'll try that.

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.

 

[rob]

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

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout-in-windows-vista/