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re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP)
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 10:01 am
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Posted by Stan Berka (1 messages posted)


Thanks! Works fine, indeed! Stan Berka


On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 7:52 am, RangerGord wrote:
>This works, is painless, and FREE:
>
>Courtesy of Jorge (j_walker7@hotmail.com).
>"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 [5 KB, free, unsupported].
>
>Place Layout.dll in %windir%\System (Win95/98/ME) or %systemroot%\System32 (WinNT/2000/XP)
>and then double-click on Layout.reg.
>From now on, whenever you right-click on the "Recycle Bin" or "My Computer" icons,
>you can see a new option: "Save [or Restore] Desktop Icon Layout".
>There are several 3rd party tools that also do this, but these files are free and
>only 14 KB in size."
>
>If you can't find the files (Layout.dll & Layout.reg) then email me at rangergord@phreaker.net
>
>
>


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re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (RangerGord: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 7:52 am)

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-Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (Steven: Sun, Oct 26, 2003, 4:46 am)
-re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (Steven: Sun, Oct 26, 2003, 5:00 am)
-re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (Steven: Sun, Oct 26, 2003, 5:05 am)
-re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (triplate: Sun, Oct 26, 2003, 5:57 am)
*re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (Steven: Sun, Oct 26, 2003, 11:01 pm)
-re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (RangerGord: Tue, Nov 23, 2004, 7:52 am)
*re: Want a simple right-click solution to you wondering Icons? (For Windows 98, ME, Windows 2000, XP) (Stan Berka: Tue, Dec 28, 2004, 10:01 am)
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