Icon Restore

I keep my icons a certain way on my desktop and it pisses me off  annoys me when an application decides that it needs to re-order them. I found a neat small piece of software that fixes this – Icon Restore.

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When all your Icons are the way you want you right click on the “My computer” Icon and select “Save Desktop Icon Layout” and the program saves your desktop layout.

After some program/screen resize/kid/pesky co-worker messes up your desktop you click “Restore Desktop Icon Layout” and everything is back the way you had it.

You can download Icon Restore from http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at 8:28 pm and is filed under Windows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Icon Restore”

  1. ym Says:
    November 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Thank you. This has annoyed me (p.o.’ed) for years.

  2. ym Says:
    November 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

    Strange behaviour. I have one icon to which it doesn’t relate. Restores all the others but doesn’t move that one.

  3. Cesar B. aka the Mover Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    This Blog reminds me the reason I like bloging so much, the interaction is very important with readers and you guys have it right. Looks great too, will be back for more posts, David the mover. : – )

  4. Yehezkel Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    Just got Win7 and icon_restore didn’t work.
    Found a similar utility which the CNET editors rated 5/5.

    http://fsl.sytes.net/iconrestorer.html

  5. Ari Says:
    August 13th, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Yehezkel – Windows 7 has this functionality built in.

    Once you have your icons the way you want them, right click on the desktop and choose “Save Desktop Icon Layout”.

    To restore the icon layout right click on the desktop and choose “Restore Desktop Icon Layout”

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