Need to turn off auto arrange or ???

[straytosters]

I need some way to turn auto arrange off via .bat or .reg.

Essentially there is a ghost image I work with (which I don’t have
access to change), and I have a .bat and .reg that sets everything up
the way I want except the Recycle Bin is in the top position, I want My
Computer in the top position (but I want to keep the Recycle bin on the
desktop).

Despite http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1219/ this setting
only works with auto arrange turned off (it say with auto arrange turned
on).

I am using a workaround by setting
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001
Near the top of the .reg and setting it to =dword:00000000 near the end.
This essentially hides the Recycle Bin icon, My Computer goes to the
top position and then turns (makes visible again) the Recycle Bin near
the end of the .reg. This seems to work on all but the quickest
machines. I am guessing on the newer machines the second .reg entry get
read before the first one can get processed, thus in effect, no change.

There is a way under NT4 to turn auto arrange on or off via registry:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=226798
But this is not in XP and doesn’t seem to work if you manually add it
(sometimes values unofficially get carried over to the next Windows
version…sometimes not).

So in recap either I need turn off auto arrange via .reg or .bat or I
need some way to force My Computer to the top position on the desktop.

James

 

[John]

Hi
Use Tweak UI for the First Icon, works with auto arange On or Off.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Regards

John

 

[straytosters]

Is Tweak UI going to add some .reg entry I can add to my current .reg?
Otherwise that is useless. I can just right click and deselect auto
arrange before running my .bat (which references a .reg amoung other
things) and get the result I want. I want to get this to all work ONLY
from a .bat ro .reg.

James

Hi
Use Tweak UI for the First Icon, works with auto arange On or Off.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Regards

John

I need some way to turn auto arrange off via .bat or .reg.

Essentially there is a ghost image I work with (which I don’t have access
to change), and I have a .bat and .reg that sets everything up the way I
want except the Recycle Bin is in the top position, I want My Computer in
the top position (but I want to keep the Recycle bin on the desktop).

Despite http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1219/ this setting
only works with auto arrange turned off (it say with auto arrange turned
on).

I am using a workaround by setting
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001
Near the top of the .reg and setting it to =dword:00000000 near the end.
This essentially hides the Recycle Bin icon, My Computer goes to the top
position and then turns (makes visible again) the Recycle Bin near the end
of the .reg. This seems to work on all but the quickest machines. I am
guessing on the newer machines the second .reg entry get read before the
first one can get processed, thus in effect, no change.

There is a way under NT4 to turn auto arrange on or off via registry:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=226798
But this is not in XP and doesn’t seem to work if you manually add it
(sometimes values unofficially get carried over to the next Windows
version…sometimes not).

So in recap either I need turn off auto arrange via .reg or .bat or I need
some way to force My Computer to the top position on the desktop.

James