http://www.pcmag.com/utilities/ free program called WinTidy - will restore icon location for every resolution (you choose when it saves icon layout), then when change resolution, it "loads" the saved icon layout for that resolution. only niggle, is that WinXP has "align to grid" for icons - this causes WinTidy to not properly restore icon places. disable WinXP "align icons" and WinTidy does it's job superbly.

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Does anyone know of a third party utility or Registry tweaks that can save and restore 
your Windows toolbar locations and order?

I use the http://www.pcmag.com/utilities/
free program called WinTidy to manage icon locations for every resolution. It's great 
but the icon locations on your desktop are only half the battle. Programs sometimes 
change the size or locations of your toolbars even if you've locked them in XP.

Are there any third party utilities that can save / restore / manage your toolbar 
locations and sizes?

I keep a 3 column horizontal toolbar setup at the bottom of my screen. The botton 
toolbar is to My Computer, middle is the taskbar, and the top is Quick Launch.  

It only takes one program to mess them all up.
And hours to put them all back again under the limited tools Microsoft gives us.

Currently they are all vertical and it's a real pain to try and get the Taskbar, 
and Quick Launch to set above the My Computer toolbar.

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Hello I was wondering if your problem was ever solved. I just bought a new notebook computer and am using the Quick Lauch Toolbar under windows xp Home. My problem is I set up the icons on where I want them but when I restart the computer the icons are all messed up again. Thanks Michael


On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 5:58 pm, John Wayne Goodin wrote:
>
>Does anyone know of a third party utility or Registry tweaks that can save and restore
>your Windows toolbar locations and order?
>
>I use the http://www.pcmag.com/utilities/
>free program called WinTidy to manage icon locations for every resolution. It's great
>but the icon locations on your desktop are only half the battle. Programs sometimes
>change the size or locations of your toolbars even if you've locked them in XP.
>
>Are there any third party utilities that can save / restore / manage your toolbar
>locations and sizes?
>
>I keep a 3 column horizontal toolbar setup at the bottom of my screen. The botton
>toolbar is to My Computer, middle is the taskbar, and the top is Quick Launch.
>
>It only takes one program to mess them all up.
>And hours to put them all back again under the limited tools Microsoft gives us.
>
>Currently they are all vertical and it's a real pain to try and get the Taskbar,
>and Quick Launch to set above the My Computer toolbar.

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I've not located a utility such as WinTidy for your desktop that does the same for 
your Toolbar locations / groupings. One Work around I've created for the location 
of the shortcuts in the Quick Launch Toolbar is to store a backup copy of them on 
your desktop in a folder of the same name. I created a folder called "Quick Launch" 
on the desktop. Opened it then used the "Ctrl-Drag" technique to drag a copy of them 
to the folder.

1. Right-Click on your desktop where to want the "Quick Launch" folder created.

2. Move down the right click menu to "NEW".

3. Choose Folder.

4. Name the Folder "Quick Launch".

5. Open the "Quick Launch" folder.

6. Copy all the items in your "Quick Launch" toolbar into the "Quick Launch" folder.
     A. Put the mouse on top of the item you want copied, hold down the Ctrl key, 
while the Ctrl key is still held down click the left mouse button on the item, while 
still holding down both the Ctrl key and the left mouse button drag the mouse pointer 
anywhere inside the "Quick Launch" folder. Now there is a copy of the shortcut both 
in your "Quick Launch" toolbar and your "Quick Launch" folder. I good quick way to 
backup your Toolbar contents in case the standard "Quick Launch" toolbar gets clobbered 
in any way.

I find the folder better to use than the toolbar for these reasons.

1. You have better control of the look and feel for the folder items.

2. You can right click on the columns area and add other column fields.
    A. A few I like are all those that show other date information. Such as Date 
created, Date Modified, and Last date accessed. The latter is useful. Why have a 
"Quick Launch" item that you haven't used in a year and a half?. A other useful item 
is the comments field you know it a glance what you use a item for.

Also the folder is useful for maintaining your standard "Quick Launch" toolbar contents. 
You can move and/or copy items from it to the folder as needs see fit.

You can also create subfolders under the "Quick Launch" folder for items you want 
but not all the time.

Say any hard to locate shortcut that you might want access to quickly that you don't 
use that often.

One of the bummers of the standard "Quick Launch" toolbar is if you unselect it from 
the toolbar menu and later restore it the items are all sorted by name.








On Sunday, May 16, 2004 at 8:48 pm, Michael  wrote:

>Hello

>

>I was wondering if your problem was ever solved.  I just bought a new notebook computer 

>and am using the Quick Lauch Toolbar under windows xp Home.  My problem is I set 

>up the icons on where I want them but when I restart the computer the icons are 
all 

>messed up again.

>

>Thanks

>

>Michael

>

>

> 

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Dear Michael,

I found your posting in a roundabout way (whilst searching Google.com for the "Win Tidy" programme, which I remember once using in "Win 95 or perhaps 98").

I notice that in order to use "Win Tidy", the "XP" icon arranger has to be disabled. I installed "XP" about two weeks ago (with intrepidation, after getting a report that some 40 items are presently likely to be incompatible with "XP"!). Please can you tell me how to "disable" the "XP" Icon arranger and where it is to be found if possible?

Thank you. Victor, London. 6/6/04 12.56pm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Sunday, May 16, 2004 at 8:48 pm, Michael wrote: "Hello I was wondering if your problem was ever solved. I just bought a new notebook computer and am using the Quick Launch Toolbar under windows xp Home. My problem is I set up the icons on where I want them but when I restart the computer the icons are all messed up again. Thanks Michael"

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Currently they are all vertical and it's a real pain to try and get the Taskbar,
>and Quick Launch to set above the My Computer toolbar.

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