Steve said:
by the way if I ever need to go in under safe mode I use another admin
enabled account, that way my accounts layout remains untouched
Yes, we discussed this before Steve, and this was my opportunity to try
it out. I do have a second admin account set up and I was going to
log-on under that account. Problem is that I'm setup so that my main
logon is automatic and apparently that's still true during safe boot.
I would have had to reset to require the login before I did the safe
mode boot (which I failed to do) and then change it back afterwards (and
if I'm honest, it starts to look like almost as much work as rearranging
the desktop).
I've always thought this is a pretty sloppy part of Windows, over
several versions. After all, it remembers the desktop layout between
regular boots so it seems trivial to save it for use after a safe boot.
Shouldn't need heroic efforts.
Re your link (which looks like it might do the job). I don't have the
resource kit - is there anywhere else I can get layout.dll ?