Save desktop icons position and restore when needed in windows 7

Anonymous
2010-08-18T22:35:03+00:00

How can I save desktop icons position and restore when needed in windows 7 ultimate x86

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Ramesh 181.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2010-08-20T03:09:50+00:00

You can save custom desktop icon position and restore it when needed, using the Layout.dll shell extension from Microsoft. REF:Save and Restore Desktop icon layout in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. Or try DesktopOK Freeware - save and restore desktop icons.

Ramesh Srinivasan | The Winhelponline Blog

Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-19T17:37:36+00:00

    Hi Mironov,

    Here are the steps that you need to follow in order to save the desktop icons position.

    To save the desktop icon position and to restore it

    a.    Right click on Desktop and click on View

    b.    Uncheck “auto-arrange icons”

    c.    Uncheck “Align icons to grid”

    Log off and log on to windows. You’ll see the position of the desktop icons unaltered.

    To restore it back, just reverse the process by checking those items.

    Hope this information is helpful and let me know if this worked.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-16T16:54:38+00:00

    When right clicking the layout.reg, "merge" does not appear. "open" appears and when I click that, it asks which program to open it with. Any other way to "merge" with the Registry?

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-28T02:32:23+00:00

    When right clicking the layout.reg, "merge" does not appear. "open" appears and when I click that, it asks which program to open it with. Any other way to "merge" with the Registry?

    I was having the very same issue. I normally use notepad++ as my .txt editor. When I told windows to 'open with' regular notepad, the option was there.

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