Icons locations

[fred]

Is the some way to place an Icon on the desktop & have it stay at the position?
Perhaps , put Icons in groups, (games) , (web search), (photoshops), etc?
As it is, the icons display in haphazard order & never, over time, Stay put.

Thanks

 

[Twayne]

In

Is the some way to place an Icon on the desktop & have it stay at the
position? Perhaps , put Icons in groups, (games) , (web search),
(photoshops), etc?
As it is, the icons display in haphazard order & never, over time,
Stay put.

Thanks

Right click on the desktop, choose Arrange Icons By and be sure that
Auto-Arrange and Align to Grid are un-ticked. They should stay put.


HTH,

Twayne

 

[Leonard Grey]

There's nothing in Windows XP that can guarantee that a given icon will
stay in one place forever. There may be third-party software that can do
this, however. A web search will let you know.

You can prevent Windows XP from aligning icons along a grid; right-click
on the desktop, select Align Icons By > remove the check mark from Align
to Grid.

 

[thanatoid]

Is the some way to place an Icon on the desktop & have it
stay at the position? Perhaps , put Icons in groups,
(games) , (web search), (photoshops), etc? As it is, the
icons display in haphazard order & never, over time, Stay
put.

Thanks

This is one of the many joys of using MS software.
There are several utilities, only one does what it's supposed
without driving you crazy with bloat and unnecessary features.

www.iconsaver.com

The old version was free. I can post it to a file-sharing site
if you are too cheap to pay $5 for the new version to get rid of
one of the biggest PITA's (and it's a BIG list) of Windows.

 

[Twayne]

In

There's nothing in Windows XP that can guarantee that a given icon
will stay in one place forever. There may be third-party software
that can do this, however. A web search will let you know.

You can prevent Windows XP from aligning icons along a grid;
right-click on the desktop, select Align Icons By > remove the check
mark from Align to Grid.

Unticking auto-arrange and align icons to grid are two ways to come very
close. Unless you change some desktop property like resolution etc., they
will stay put.


HTH,

Twayne

 

[thanatoid]

In message <[email protected]>,

I think the oldest such utility is Melissa Nguyen's EZdesk
(in theory shareware, but the homepage is an AOL commons
one, which was shut down years ago, so you have to get it
from a repository such as
http://www.brothersoft.com/ezdesk-7419.html).

Tried it, it sucks.

It has worked
since at least Windows 98. Another one is iconoid (google
for it), which has some other features too (which I don't
use).

Tried it. A program almost as ridiculous as its name.

EZdesk is fine, small, and unobtrusive.

If that's your opinion of EZDesk (you don't say anything about
how well it works - unless "fine" is that - which I disagree
with since IMO it does not work very well), then you would
consider iconsaver "magical" and "invisible".

A few years ago, after very hard searching, I have found and
tried 3 or 4 others along with the 2 you mention. They are all
bloated with useless crap and several don't even do what they're
supposed to.

 

[thanatoid]

In message <[email protected]>,
thanatoid <[email protected]> writes:

Ooh, who got out of bed the wrong side this morning?

My bed does not have a "right" side. They're all (all 4) wrong.
I should have never been born.

To do
what the OP wanted - i. e. keep desktop icons where they
have been put - I'd say both are fine; your iconsaver is
probably another such. (I've just looked at its homepage -
the "main features" list sounds identical to both of the
above, though I'm not sure what you'd need hotkeys or an
icon position editor for.)

You don't which is why I use the free version from 1998.
Still, these new features (WHY can't authors leave well enough
alone?) are nothing compared to the crap that comes with the
other programs we have been talking about.

I've also found that the icons get shuffled unexpectedly a
lot less in XP than they did in '98 (even lite).

True, still no reason to use that demented product if you can
avoid it.

If I EVER manage to clean up my drive, I am installing Linux.

Although after ****ing around with XP for a month or so and
asking a few questions here and there (before almost everyone
plonked me), I have made it manageable and almost bearable.
Still annoying, but not as annoying as the way it comes out of
the box, which is nothing but "BOB 2".

 

[ClueLess]

Tried it, it sucks.

Try icon_restore.exe

http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/desktop/icon_restore.exe

It presents a right-click menu option on My Computer and Recycle bin
shortcuts to save and restore the icons on the Desktop. Very good.

 

[thanatoid]

Try icon_restore.exe

http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/desktop/icon_
restore.exe

It presents a right-click menu option on My Computer and
Recycle bin shortcuts to save and restore the icons on the
Desktop. Very good.

I've tried them all! They are all dysfunctional, have stupid
bloat, useless features, or are just too damn big or mess with
the system!

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the PC utility whose name
escapes me at the moment!
Iconsaver rules OK!

OK?

 

[thanatoid]

Remember where you're posting (-:

Would you prefer me to reply to you in
it.discussioni.leggende.metropolitane?

It is indeed possible to make it so. (As for plonking you,
no - like Marvin the paranoid android, and before him
Eeyore, ...)

I know YOU didn't, but quite a few of the morons in the XP
groups have.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I think the best (and cheapest) way, is to re-name your desktop icons, preceding each
name with a number - i.e. :

rename "My Computer" to "1 My Computer"
rename "My Documents" to "2 My Documents"
rename "CD Drive (D)" to "3 CD Drive (D)"
rename "Internet Explorer" to "4 Internet Explorer"
rename "Adobe Reader 9" to "5 Adobe Reader 9"

....so that the first icon on the screen corresponds to renaming it with a preceding
"1", the second with "2", etc.

Then, when they become "unstuck", as they so often do (hence all the apps to set
things straight), all you have to do is right-click on desktop > Arrange Icons By >
Name ...to get them back in the desired order!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[thanatoid]

I think the best (and cheapest) way, is to re-name your
desktop icons, preceding each name with a number - i.e. :

rename "My Computer" to "1 My Computer"
rename "My Documents" to "2 My Documents"
rename "CD Drive (D)" to "3 CD Drive (D)"
rename "Internet Explorer" to "4 Internet Explorer"

So far, tolerable, although may add an extra line not to mention
ugly numericals...

rename "Adobe Reader 9" to "5 Adobe Reader 9"

AUUGH!!! What if for some reason you need TWO versions of the
same program?

2.1 Word 4
2.2 Word 7

???

AAAAUUUUUUUGH!!!!!!!!!

...so that the first icon on the screen corresponds to
renaming it with a preceding "1", the second with "2", etc.

Then, when they become "unstuck", as they so often do
(hence all the apps to set things straight), all you have
to do is right-click on desktop > Arrange Icons By > Name
...to get them back in the desired order!

Not a bad idea aside from the aesthetic aspect, but it won't
work if you have the icons scattered all over in logical groups
related to program type, use, frequency of use, etc. - as at
least one person I know does.

All other people's computers I have personally seen have the
default Windows color scheme and the default Windows icons in
the default 'vertical line on the left' order.

And I am the only person I know (correction, a couple of weeks
ago someone mentioned they had the same - but that's the first
/ever/) who has the taskbar vertically on the left (which has
nothing to do with the vertical line of icons on the left I just
mentioned, since, as I already mentioned, I mentioned I have
them in groups in various places all over the desktop. Did I
mention that?

(Sorry... I am involved in a mind-numbing session with a moron
in another group...

 

[Tim Meddick]

You could also be creative with renaming your desktop icons with *names* that begin
with letters that perform the same result as using the numbered solution...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Leonard Grey]

You mean something like this:

<music>

"A," you're adorable, "B," you're so beautiful,
"C," you're a cutie full of charms.
"D," you're a darling and "E," you're exciting
And "F," you're a feather in my arms.
"G," you look good to me, "H," you're so heavenly,
"I," you're the one I idolize.
"J," we're like Jack and Jill, "K," you're so kissable,
"L," is the lovelight in your eyes.

"M," "N," "O," "P," I could go on all day.
"Q," "R," "S," "T," alphabetically speaking, you're OK.

U," made my life complete, "V," means you're very sweet,
Double-"U" "X" "Y" "Zee."
It's fun to wander through the alphabet with you
To tell you what you mean to me.

</music>
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

You could also be creative with renaming your desktop icons with *names*
that begin with letters that perform the same result as using the
numbered solution...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[thanatoid]

You could also be creative with renaming your desktop icons
with *names* that begin with letters that perform the same
result as using the numbered solution...

Nah... Too old and too lazy and too stupid. Besides, I have been
using IconSaver for years so it is not an issue any more. Sure
as hell used to be!