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Old April 13th 18, 12:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Where are the desktop icon settings stored in 98se?

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:43:46 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:41:59 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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http://contents.driverguide.com/cont...1&path=WINDOWS

%2FDESKTOP%2Flooney%2FTOOLS%2FWINDOWS%2FEZDESK%2 FREADME.TXT
has version 1.7 (78.5 KB)
http://www.brothersoft.com/ezdesk-do...19.html?bottom
has version 1.8 (NOT "Server 1 Official Download" - that's over 3M, so
obviously has PUPs or worse; Server 2 was 85K. Or that was the case just
now)


Thanks

The driverguide one refused to let me download. Their idiotic captcha
said I need to upgrade my browser. I kindly filpped them the bird, used
the best of my collection of F-words and moved on. (I'll add them to my
HOST file later on, so I dont have to waste another 10 min waiting for
their useless site to load).


I didn't want to recommend them - sites with "driver" in the name are
generally at best a waste of time IMO, possibly worse - but they were
the first one I found that actually had the file.

I agree about the sutes with the word "driver" being useless. I've run
across them far too many times. There is no reason on earth that a
captcha is needed to download a file.


Server 2 on brothersoft worked fine. I installed it, and like it a lot.
I saved my desktop. Then I intentionally screwed it up my icons. I
clicked Restore and it was all fixed. COOL!!! A Great program! I should
have had this years ago. What i have is ver 1.8 and am using it on
Win98se with Kernel-EX..


It works without Kernel-EX as well. I like it too: does what it says on
the tin, as we say, without any fuss (and you can store an arrangement
for each resolution, too), and works under XP too. Not, sadly, 7 -
either iconoid or DesktopOK are my choices here. The one _theoretical_
disadvantage of EZDesk (1.8 was I think the last version) is that it
still stores its settings in the registry; the only one that I know
actually stores the settings in a file is
https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK - I'm not sure if
that works under '98, though there is _a_ mention of 98 on that page.
But I never found EZDesk storing its settings in the registry to
actually cause a problem.


I didnt thing Kernel-Ex was needed.
So the settings are in the registry. I was wondering where.
Actually I have yet to find where the program got installed to. It's not
in Program Files. I deleted the install TEMP folder. (But saved the
original download). So where did it go?

I should mention that this file should be required before installing
Opera (browser). I dont know how many times I tried different versions
of Opera, and every time my desktop got all messed up. One reason I quit
even trying Opera, but that was many years ago. I never liked Opera
anyhow.

I got a laugh reading the "how to register" text file. It says you can
buy it on a 3.5" floppy. Ya never hear that anymore. Heck, it's hard to
even find blank floppies these days. This Win98 machine is the only
computer I have that still has a floppy drive. If I need something from
a floppy on my newer computers, I just stick the floppy in the 98
machine and dump the contents to a flash drive.

I still remember when I had Windows 3.1 and had two 40 meg hard drives
in it. Then I backed it up on floppy. I had to feed about 55 floppies in
that drive to complete the backup. What a pain....
And to think, one youtube video can easily be 80 megs these days.