Is there any way that I can save the position of the icons, and then restore them? Mine keep getting screwed up and moving all over the place.

I don't think that's his problem.

Whenever I upgrade the driver for my Intel Graphics controller, as part of the upgrade process it temporarily switches to a lower resolution and then back to my original resolution. In the process, the desktop icons are reorganized to the top and left of the screen.

Same thing happens if I boot Vista into safe mode and use my account instead of the administrator's account.

Really frustrating to reorganize a couple of dozen icons back to where you think they were. It should be trivial to save that part of the registry that tracks these icon postions and restores them on demand.

Bob

Here we go:

http://www.nthelp.com/50/save_desktop_layout.htm

Basically, you just drop the dll in the system32 directory, and then you can save/restore the desktop icons anytime you want.

You wouldn't believe the amount of times people ask about this... I think I might write an article about it.

Sweet! That solved my problem perfectly! You should really write an article about this.

I think there is a much easier solution. I stuck all the desktop icons into a folder on the desktop. Then I installed "App Launcher" on my sidebar (from: Get more gadgets online), drag all the shortcuts from the folder on the desktop into there (App Launcher has to know the path). Now I can start any of those with one click plus I have only 2 Icons on my desktop: The Icon folder and the Recycle Bin.

Lighthouse, you are the neatest of us neatos. How did you hide the one you have left.
PS. I need that recycle bin as I told you the other day. Without it, I would have lost already have of my assets.

Thanks Lighthouse. And in ALT255 the "255" has to be numeric. Or not?

Yes, hold down th Alt key and tap in "255" on the numeric keypad. The next one you want to hide, do the same but Alt 255 twice. etc etc