Desktop Icon Restore

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

June 11 2010 07:51 GMT

If you're like me and game resolutions are constantly fucking with your windows resolution and rearranging your desktop icons (and you have a lot) then this is the answer.

Icon Restore

Icon Restore installs LAYOUT.DLL (along with the required registry entries) from Microsoft. Two new options are added to the pop up menu that opens when any Windows system icon (ex. My Computer) is right clicked. These options are "Save Desktop Icon Layout" and "Restore Desktop Icon Layout". See the screen shot below:

Screen Shot

After installing Icon Restore, simply place your icons wherever you want them on your desktop, right click My Computer (or any 'system' icon) and left click on "Save Desktop Icon Layout" from the pop up menu.

If your icons ever get moved because your computer entered safe mode or you changed the screen resolution, right click My Computer (or any 'system' icon) and left click on "Restore Desktop Icon Layout" from the pop up menu.

Icon Restore is the perfect solution for people that have to change the screen resolution often.

Download the Icon Restore installation program free of charge by clicking on the following link:

http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.exe

http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html

semantics

10040 Posts

June 11 2010 07:58 GMT

Lol icons, i have none on my desktop, why would i use icons i have windows 7 i pin everything to my taskbar.

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

June 11 2010 08:07 GMT

On June 11 2010 16:58 semantics wrote:
Lol icons, i have none on my desktop, why would i use icons i have windows 7 i pin everything to my taskbar.

I hit the Windows key + first letters of the program I want to start. Nothing on my desktop except for some files that I use fequently at the moment. Nothing on my Taskbar either.

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

June 11 2010 08:09 GMT

On June 11 2010 17:07 spinesheath wrote:

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I hit the Windows key + first letters of the program I want to start. Nothing on my desktop except for some files that I use fequently at the moment. Nothing on my Taskbar either.

How do you do that?
I just hit windows key + a bunch of letters and my computer just started doing random crap :[

fanta[Rn]

Japan2465 Posts

June 11 2010 08:14 GMT

I used to start bw by doing this: ctrl + r, type sc and hit enter

Pretty cool, you have to add a shortcut called 'sc' to your system32 folder in able to do this

kuresuti

1393 Posts

June 11 2010 09:16 GMT

On June 11 2010 17:09 Dead9 wrote:

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How do you do that?
I just hit windows key + a bunch of letters and my computer just started doing random crap :[

It should be in the properties of a shortcut, rightclick BW shortcut -> properties, there should be a "Shortcut Key" box in there.

Navane

Netherlands2749 Posts

June 11 2010 10:04 GMT

On June 11 2010 18:16 kuresuti wrote:

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It should be in the properties of a shortcut, rightclick BW shortcut -> properties, there should be a "Shortcut Key" box in there.

You can use pretty much any combination of Alt-Ctrl-Shift as well as windows key, together with a letter.

Golden Ghost

Netherlands1041 Posts

June 11 2010 10:55 GMT

Thanks Charlie, I started using this on my work laptop. Very usefull as I continually have to switch from laptop with just the laptop screen to docking with multiple monitors.
Now finally everything stays grouped correct.

At home I have only a few folders on my desktop with the programs grouped inside them.
For example the folder Multimedia contains VLC/Winamp/Vuze etc. The folder Office contains OpenOffice/Adobe Professional/Gimp etc.

ghen

United States1356 Posts

June 11 2010 13:39 GMT

I use Ultramon to keep a taskbar on my 2nd monitor and have seperate backgrounds on each monitor. It also has the benefit of saving icon placements.

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