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Old 09-10-2008   #1 (permalink)
Terry


 
 

Locking desktop icons

I have very recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I
have two desktops (users) in operation. After I have put a number of icons
on the display page, they stay where I put them. However, after opening the
other user's desktop and then going back to my own, I find that all my work
of putting the icons where I wanted them, they have moved to different
positions. This also happens in the reverse direction. Is there a way of
locking them where I want them?

Terry


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Old 09-10-2008   #2 (permalink)
leap frog vista


 
 

Re: Locking desktop icons

this should not happen normally...

You should see if you there is an updated display adaptor driver for your
laptop, and then install it, because when shifting users it seems that your
display is changing resolutions for a split second,
thus causing this mix up of icons.



"Terry" <terry.cliss@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> I have very recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I
> have two desktops (users) in operation. After I have put a number of icons
> on the display page, they stay where I put them. However, after opening
> the other user's desktop and then going back to my own, I find that all my
> work of putting the icons where I wanted them, they have moved to
> different positions. This also happens in the reverse direction. Is there
> a way of locking them where I want them?
>
> Terry
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 09-10-2008   #3 (permalink)
Synapse Syndrome


 
 

Re: Locking desktop icons

"Terry" <terry.cliss@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uVcLZv4EJHA.5104@xxxxxx
Quote:

>I have very recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I
>have two desktops (users) in operation. After I have put a number of icons
>on the display page, they stay where I put them. However, after opening the
>other user's desktop and then going back to my own, I find that all my work
>of putting the icons where I wanted them, they have moved to different
>positions. This also happens in the reverse direction. Is there a way of
>locking them where I want them?
If you cannot find out or solve the reason for this happening, you could use
the command line version of this in a logon script:

http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

ss.


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