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Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they
can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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If you simply want to maintain the icon configuration/placement.......there
is a very tiny app called "Save My Desktop!" that works great. You could save the desktop as you left it and be able to restore it with a couple of mouse clicks. Do a Google search, it is available from a number of places. May be mistaken, but, I think the latest version is 1.2. Heirloom, old and so tired "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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Heirloom, old and so tired
How come? You haven't been shovelling snow like we have....grin. Guess it is that *age thing*. Kissies......HF "Heirloom" wrote in message ... If you simply want to maintain the icon configuration/placement.......there is a very tiny app called "Save My Desktop!" that works great. You could save the desktop as you left it and be able to restore it with a couple of mouse clicks. Do a Google search, it is available from a number of places. May be mistaken, but, I think the latest version is 1.2. Heirloom, old and so tired "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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Yeah, if I were up there, I would simply be 'tired of snow'!!! We have
enough things to get tired with.....I have been mowing my yard (it is that green stuff underneath the feet of snow in front of your house). Trimming trees and shrubs has taken its' toll. Oh yeah, and riding my bikes!!! Heirloom, old and 186 mph is really fast "Heather" wrote in message ... Heirloom, old and so tired How come? You haven't been shovelling snow like we have....grin. Guess it is that *age thing*. Kissies......HF "Heirloom" wrote in message ... If you simply want to maintain the icon configuration/placement.......there is a very tiny app called "Save My Desktop!" that works great. You could save the desktop as you left it and be able to restore it with a couple of mouse clicks. Do a Google search, it is available from a number of places. May be mistaken, but, I think the latest version is 1.2. Heirloom, old and so tired "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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Hello:
In addition to the program mentioned by Heirloom, there are 2 other similar programs that you could take a look at. I'm guessing that they all do pretty much the same thing. 1. Check out "Icon Restore" at: http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html . 2. Check out "IconRestorer" at: http://freesoftland.sytes.net/iconrestorer.html . Cheers, O.J. "Heirloom" wrote in message ... If you simply want to maintain the icon configuration/placement.......there is a very tiny app called "Save My Desktop!" that works great. You could save the desktop as you left it and be able to restore it with a couple of mouse clicks. Do a Google search, it is available from a number of places. May be mistaken, but, I think the latest version is 1.2. Heirloom, old and so tired "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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Hey O.J.!!!
Thanks for the input. I looked at the ones you mentioned. I was a tad dismayed at the first one, not having an uninstall feature....needing to download that seperately. The second one looked pretty nice, however, the GUI alone is probably a bigger file than the whole of Save My Desktop!. This was the smallest of all the programs that I found. All I wanted was something to put the icons back in place, no bells and whistles (like Iconoid, it has become waaaay to large). Oh, BTW, beware of the "hlp with browser win" thread.....I noticed you tried to help out there. I'll just say that nothing you could possibly do or offer would be of any help and this would not be a shortcoming on your part!!! Heirloom, old and On Trick Ponies are good "O.J. Newman" wrote in message ... Hello: In addition to the program mentioned by Heirloom, there are 2 other similar programs that you could take a look at. I'm guessing that they all do pretty much the same thing. 1. Check out "Icon Restore" at: http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html . 2. Check out "IconRestorer" at: http://freesoftland.sytes.net/iconrestorer.html . Cheers, O.J. "Heirloom" wrote in message ... If you simply want to maintain the icon configuration/placement.......there is a very tiny app called "Save My Desktop!" that works great. You could save the desktop as you left it and be able to restore it with a couple of mouse clicks. Do a Google search, it is available from a number of places. May be mistaken, but, I think the latest version is 1.2. Heirloom, old and so tired "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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"Heirloom" wrote in message
... If you simply want to maintain the icon configuration/placement.......there is a very tiny app called "Save My Desktop!" that works great. You could save the desktop as you left it and be able to restore it with a couple of mouse clicks. Do a Google search, it is available from a number of places. May be mistaken, but, I think the latest version is 1.2. Got it. Looks good. I'll try it on their system next time I'm working on it. - Bill Heirloom, old and so tired "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Is there a means, even third party, to lock the icons on the desktop so they can't be moved or deleted and no new ones can be added? I'm dealing with a user who likes to "play" with the desktop and I keep having to make service calls because things are messed up, duplicated, or missing. - Bill |
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