Icons outside the Desktop dimensions

In message , dadiOH
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a wrote:
with 'dispose' i mean 'where i have put them'

this is a pic
http://www.iouppo.com/lite/pic/8daee...cd44db0f63.jpg

i presume they went outside because they were more than one hundred
and ther was non more space


You might want to consider putting them on one or more toolbars. Maybe make
another taskbar too for the toolbars.

Is there actually a hard limit then? I thought the only such limit was
files in the root directory under FAT (which _is_ about 100, IIRR).
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , dadiOH
writes:
a wrote:
with 'dispose' i mean 'where i have put them'

this is a pic
http://www.iouppo.com/lite/pic/8daee...cd44db0f63.jpg

i presume they went outside because they were more than one hundred
and ther was non more space


You might want to consider putting them on one or more toolbars. Maybe
make another taskbar too for the toolbars.

Is there actually a hard limit then? I thought the only such limit was
files in the root directory under FAT (which _is_ about 100, IIRR).

I'm not sure what you mean. My suggestion was only that the OP could have
very easy access to the shortcuts he now has on his desktop by putting them
into toolbars named appropriately (which would also clean up the desktop),
not that his problem with icons being "out of bounds" was due to too many.
AFAIK, you can have as many desktop icons as will fit in the space.

I have had his same problem at times and I normally have only a handful of
icons on the desktop. I always fixed it as "who where" outlined but sans
the icon saver.

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In message , dadiOH
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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Is there actually a hard limit then? I thought the only such limit was
files in the root directory under FAT (which _is_ about 100, IIRR).

I'm not sure what you mean. My suggestion was only that the OP could have
very easy access to the shortcuts he now has on his desktop by putting them
into toolbars named appropriately (which would also clean up the desktop),
not that his problem with icons being "out of bounds" was due to too many.
AFAIK, you can have as many desktop icons as will fit in the space.
[]
That (you can have as many as you like) was my understanding too. I
asked because someone (I think the OP) raised the possibility that there
_is_ a limit.
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a wrote:
hallo

some icons are currently out the Desktop
(that is out the screen dimensions)

Do you have a "Magnifier" program running (Accessibility option)?

i can't increase the resolution from the Control Panel
so to be able to "see" them
(i'm at 1024x768 that is the maximum allowed
by the Control Panel screen settings)

if i right click on the empty Desktot
I can dispose the icon by name, date ecc...
but so doing I will scramble my current disposition
(I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop)

so how to "catch" the icons outside the Desktop
and place them inside?

I'm only suggesting here that you might be fighting symptoms instead of
problems.

"a" wrote in message
news
hallo

some icons are currently out the Desktop
(that is out the screen dimensions)

i can't increase the resolution from the Control Panel
so to be able to "see" them
(i'm at 1024x768 that is the maximum allowed
by the Control Panel screen settings)

if i right click on the empty Desktot
I can dispose the icon by name, date ecc...
but so doing I will scramble my current disposition
(I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop)

so how to "catch" the icons outside the Desktop
and place them inside?

And the maximum allowed Monitors is?
And the maximum allowed Display Adapter Is?


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On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:16:46 -0600, "MyNews"
wrote:

And the maximum allowed Monitors is?
And the maximum allowed Display Adapter Is?

monitor.. i'm with 98, i presume only one monitor is supported
display adpater ... i presume i 1024x768 is the maximum

anyway changing/wotking with the two above devices will be too tricky...

i solved in another manner (se my following post)

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:51:22 +0100, a wrote:
i create a new folder

now comparing the icons listed in the Explorer (about100) and the
ones displayed on the Desktop (about 80)

i manually transferred the 20 i was able to see in Explorer
in this newly folder

then extracted again these 20 icons (one by one) on a visible portion of
the Desktop

note:
another possible reason that caused the problem,
was the use of the "Align to grid" command
(i presume that in English the name of the command
is this or a similar one):
so doing, when you have many icons, some of them will go outside Desktop
boundaries

"a" wrote in message
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some icons are currently out the Desktop
(that is out the screen dimensions) . . .
(I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop)

Is this clutter not the main problem? There is no point keeping
on the Desktop a link (icon) that you do not use every day.
(I have just counted here -- 27 icons on the desktop. It is a
little more crowded than usual and some will soon be removed,
e.g. income tax.)

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

In message , a
writes:
[]
another possible reason that caused the problem,
was the use of the "Align to grid" command
(i presume that in English the name of the command
is this or a similar one):

(It is indeed something like that.)

so doing, when you have many icons, some of them will go outside Desktop
boundaries

In my experience, it sometimes places icons on top of (or underneath)
other icons; I haven't experienced it moving them off the desktop
altogether. (I'm not saying it couldn't happen, though.)
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In message , Don Phillipson
writes:
"a" wrote in message
news
some icons are currently out the Desktop
(that is out the screen dimensions) . . .
(I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop)

Is this clutter not the main problem? There is no point keeping
on the Desktop a link (icon) that you do not use every day.

It's a little arrogant to tell others how to use their computers. "a" -
and I - choose to have quite a lot of icons; each to his own.

Keeping actual _files_, rather than shortcuts to them, on the desktop
_can_ slow things down, especially in a roaming profile situation, but
those are unlikely to be using roaming profiles these days.

(I have just counted here -- 27 icons on the desktop. It is a
little more crowded than usual and some will soon be removed,
e.g. income tax.)

How many of those have you used today (or this week)?
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
(quoted by Neil D. Jackson [original was probably paraphrasing Clarke])