icons suddenly all rearranged ....

You are welcome. Sorry to hear it. There were more articles where those
came from, but those were the most promising.

"WinTidy" is nice to have, as it can save your Desktop layouts based on
screen size. Also, it has pre-defined layouts & super-small mode.

http://www.pcmag.com/ Has many, many great utilities: BHOCop, COA2,
ContextEdit, Crackup, DiskAction, EndItAll2, Folders, HDValet, InCtrl5,
ListZapper, RegDetective, RegEdit+, StartupCop, WinTidy, etc. Now,
suddenly, there is a subscription fee at PCMag, but, it's worth it,
especially if you can get the whole bundle that is there.

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Yearly billing $19.97
Yearly billing (For PC Magazine subscribers) $14.97
Monthly billing (limit 3 downloads/month) $4.97
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You may try Google, but do you really want to download from any odd
site?
http://www.google.com/


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"budgie" wrote in message
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| On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:49:45 -0500, "PCR" wrote:
|
| It may be as simple as Bob B. said. Otherwise...
|
| (1) Have you changed the grid-- Icon Spacing horizontal/vertical-- in
| "Control Panel, Display, Appearance tab, Item dropdown menu"? For a
| 1024x768 screen, mine are...
|
| Horizontal... 62.
| Vertical....... 56.
|
| Fool with those values at your own peril. You may end up with
invisible
| icons!
|
|
| Nope, NOTHING has been changed/installed/de-installed on the machine.
|
| (2) Have you got too many icons for Auto Arrange to handle? Then one
of
| the following articles has a solution-- make folders for them.
|
| forty-something. Nothing approaching AB's 78. (Is that a "record"?
;-))
|
| (3) I guess read these articles, from...
| http://search.support.microsoft.com/...dv=1&spid=1139 MSKB
| Search "Desktop Icons"; Windows 98; Filtered; Full Text; All Words;
| Anytime...
|
| Went through all of them, nothing fits. But thanks for the
suggestions. I have
| rearranged them manually to something like they were. As I posted in
response
| to an earlier suggestion, they weren't in any special order, but I
knew where
| they all were almost without looking, and once they have been
scrambled it's a
| PITA to have to scour the 40+ icons looking for the one I want.