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Old April 11th 18, 11:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Where are the desktop icon settings stored in 98se?

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:37:13 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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In message ,
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:42:25 -0700 (PDT), Lee
wrote:


A better solution was recently discussed just a few post back. If you can't
see it here is the link that provides a fix issued for NT4 but works
well for 98 too.
http://stevehealy.org/techblog/?p=162


This link is poor. Using my Win98 with firefox 3.x on dialup, It took a
half hour to load, gave me a security error and when I finally got to
the page, there was no download link to click on. (It's a cnet page).

http://www.midiox.com/

But they did list the above webpage, which is the author's site. I
clicked on it, it loaded in seconds and clicking on "Desktop Restore"
took me right to the downloads. There are 6 versions of it. The bottom
one is for Win98. The others are for XP up to Win10. Some are 64 bit.
Dont waste your time with cnet, and the extreme amount of ads they bloat
you with. Go directly to the site I posted.

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Now that I got the file, I'll try it. But have not done so yet.

The one I recommended - sorry, I hadn't realised there's an actual desk
called EZDesk, so the software is harder to find. I found a copy at
http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windo...es/ezdesk.html
(don't worry about mention of $15: the trial version works for ever; I
actually decided I wanted to pay for it a few years ago as I'd used it
far longer than I should have, but all the real links have gone). And it
does work on 98 - even 95.


Unfortunately the download is gone too. The page is there at the link
you posted, but clicking on the download button brings up another page,
then there is an error saying the download is not there.

Do you have the original install file? If you do, is there some place on
the web you can stick it for downloading? Like a personal website or
something. It's a very small file. 83kb.