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Restore your desktop icon positions with DesktopOK

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If you spend a lot of time changing your Windows desktop resolution, there's a good chance you also spend a lot of time rearranging your desktop icons. That's because every time you change to a new resolution and then change back, Windows tends to knock your desktop icon layout of whack.

A few months back, we looked at Icon Restore, a nifty little tool that lets you save the state of your desktop icons and then restore them. DesktopOK does pretty much the same thing. But unlike Icon Restore, DesktopOK lets you save and restore multiple layouts.

DesktopOK hangs out in your system tray when minimized. When you're getting ready to change your display resolution, you can just pop it open, save your state, and then play with your resolutions as much as you like, safe in the knowledge that you can restore your desktop to that state when you're done. Or you can keep a couple of saved layouts handy for different situations.

[via Confessions of a Freeware Junkie]

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Icon Restore: Save and restore your Windows desktop layout


Ever change your Windows desktop resolution, only to find that all of your program shortcuts, image thumbnails, and other desktop icons have shifted? Changing back to your original resolution doesn't help either. But Icon Restore might.

This handy little freeware application lets you create a snapshot of your desktop layout. Once it's installed, you'll find two new options in your right-click menu for My Computer. One lets you save your desktop icon layout, while the other lets you restore your layout to your most recently saved settings.

There is currently no way to uninstall Icon Restore using Windows' Add/Remove dialog. Instead, you have to download a standalone uninstaller application from the developer's site.

[via gHacks]

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