The icon-scrambling feature

Are there people for whom the automatic icon-scrambling invoked on
folders by clicking the X in the upper right corner, and on the
desktop by running in safe mode, is a feature?

I think the desktop scrambling after safe mode is a side effect of the
change in resolution, but the folder scrambling invoked by clicking
the X appears to be intentional.

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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net

Joy Beeson wrote in
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I think the desktop scrambling after safe mode is a side effect of the
change in resolution, but the folder scrambling invoked by clicking
the X appears to be intentional.


You're right about the desktop bit, icons are moved to appear onscreen, and
later in larger resolutions they will occupy a screen-shaped area, smaller
than the original before using safe mode, and placed top left. Same thing
happens if you test a lower screen res at any time, then restore the higher
one.

Explaining the directory bit is harder. (I hate calling them folders, always
have, the files aren't 'in' there any more than shops are held inside
commercial phone directories!). First, the X in the top right corner usually
closes a window, so any icon placement on opening a new window in a directory
depends on several things. If you can tell people how you chose Explorer view
settings, like icon sort order, or auto-arranged icons, or whether view
settings are remembered, and if so, are they remembered for each Explorer
window, or for all, that will help but without that info, people can only
guess because there are too many possibilities. (I think all the relevant
settings are on the 'View' submenu of any Explorer window, or on the tabbed
'Options' dialog reached via the menu's last entry).

I think the desktop scrambling after safe mode is a side effect of the
change in resolution

There are programs that can save and restore the position of desktop
icons. Google comes up with DesktopOK and DeskSave as a couple freeware
programs that support Win98. I use an old PC Magazine program called
WinTidy, but years ago they started requiring a subscription to access
their utilities.

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

http://www.desksave.de

In message , nobody
writes:
I think the desktop scrambling after safe mode is a side effect of the
change in resolution

Indeed.

There are programs that can save and restore the position of desktop
icons. Google comes up with DesktopOK and DeskSave as a couple freeware
programs that support Win98. I use an old PC Magazine program called
WinTidy, but years ago they started requiring a subscription to access
their utilities.

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

http://www.desksave.de


I've been using EzDesk longer than I can remember.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. - Jules Renard,
writer (1864-1910)

In message , nobody
writes:
I think the desktop scrambling after safe mode is a side effect of the
change in resolution

There are programs that can save and restore the position of desktop
icons. Google comes up with DesktopOK and DeskSave as a couple freeware
programs that support Win98. I use an old PC Magazine program called
WinTidy, but years ago they started requiring a subscription to access
their utilities.

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

http://www.desksave.de


I think the softwareok website deserves wider recognition, having looked
at it: there's a lot of small freeware there, much of which runs under
98 (some 95) all the way up to 7.

There's one there -
http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Mic.../GetWindowText - that I
_think_ (the translation from German is such that I'm not sure) might
help the person who wanted to capture error message text.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. - Jules Renard,
writer (1864-1910)