LOCKING ICONS ON DESKTOP

[Bill Fleming]

Is it possible to lock the position of my icons that are on my desktop. I
have positioned them many many times only to have them get scrambled. I
never know when this is going to happen. It my be days, weeks, or months but
they do get moved.
I am tired of having to reposition them over and over again and hope there
is a quick fix to my problem.

Thanks in advance
Bill F

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Right click Desktop | Arrange Icons By | Lock Web Items on Desktop

Lock Web Items on Desktop
[[Specifies whether Web content windows or items that *you* have placed on
your desktop are locked in place and can’t be moved. Select the check box to
lock Web content in place. Clear the check box if you want to be able to
move Web content.]]

Or...

[[Icons - Lock on Desktop
"In Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP you can lock down the position of the
Desktop icons using a couple of files from the MS Windows NT 4.0 Resource
Kit.]]
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_i.htm

[[Microsoft's Layout.dll (free) file, which is included in the Windows NT
Resource Kit, can be installed on Windows 2000 and XP systems. This adds the
Save Desktop Icon Layout and Restore Desktop Icon Layout options to the
pop-up menus associated with system icons like the Recycle Bin and My
Computer. It's a bare-bones solution that lacks the useful frills found in
EzDesk, but it gets the job done.]]
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1593475,00.asp

zipped layout.dll direct download..
http://www.nthelp.com/proggy/layout.zip

[[Make Desktop Icons Stay in Place
1. Download the zip file that comes from the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit.
Don't worry! It'll work with your Windows XP machine.
2. Copy the files in the .zip file onto the desktop. Then place Layout.dll
in your WINDOWS\System32 directory.
3. After the layout.dll is in the right directory, double click on the
layout.reg file.
4. Right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop. You should see two
new commands: Save Desktop Icon Layout and Restore Desktop Icon Layout.
Use them to save and restore your icon arrangement. ]]
http://www.wxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=52

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Hi Bill...

I've recently had this same problem myself...every time I rebooted or
refresh the desktop, they would revert to auto-arrange. I tried so many
things to fix it...Desktop Restore software would work but only after the
icons had been reset. I found the only way to beat this was create a new
profile as admin, log on to it and copy across my needed documents/temp
files/app data and place them in directories in the new profile. I then
deleted the original profile and files and am happy to say that all works as
it should. My icons are in my custom positions and stay there after reboots
and refreshes.

Hope that is of some help to you