Any good soft for icon position save/restore ?

biuro74 · 21 Apr 2012 at 21:22

Hi,

Do you know any *good* program to save/restore icon positions that would work *correct* on main screen when second screen (TV) is enabled and its desktop size is a bit lowered ?

I've tried some, but all of them get stupid once second screen (TV) is disabled/enabled...

I don't want to check all proposed programs, if they don't work correctly regarding to second screen, I hope you would understand and propose just checked already ones

Thank you in advance

OCdude · 22 Apr 2012 at 08:54

Have you tried Ultramon? I've used it in the past, along with its "save/restore desktop icon positioning" feature, but i've not used it when changing the resolutions.

Worth a shot I guess!

Craiig · 22 Apr 2012 at 18:18

Yeah, Ultramon should do this for you.. Gud Luk (Y)

biuro74 · 23 Apr 2012 at 20:45

Ooo.. thanks, guys. I just installed it minute ago, but so far I can see it restores properly icons once 2nd monitor is disabled/enabled + resized + moved to left. Hopefully it will work this way all the time

oxygene · 23 Apr 2012 at 20:53

Stardock fences could work for you as well, as the icons stay within their individual fences even with res resizes

biuro74 · 24 May 2012 at 09:09

No no no....

This Ultramon works fine, but is NOT free.... Fee is about 40$ which makes me angry as I don't need to pay just for proper icon placement. Ridiculous.

Any other, but FREE software, please ? Stardock looks non-free (shareware, trialware), too. It's some stupid idea on webpages not to give customers a clue that program they are about to download & install is free, or not (like stops working after 20-day trial period and requires a purchase)..

BloodyL · 24 May 2012 at 14:30

Fences will be perfect for your needs and comes in two flavours, free and paid.
The Stardock website tries it best to get you to pay or give up personal information when in fact the free version can be downloaded from CNET:
http://download.cnet.com/Fences/3000-2072_4-10909535.html

Enjoy!

biuro74 · 24 May 2012 at 17:16

Thank you for reply,

I'm fighting with fences and finally, it seems not to be my perfect choice - as I understand, I have to create 2 separate fences - one on each screen.. but there's no option to adjust icons positions in the fence itself. So it looks like auto-arranging icons which is not my option

Or maybe I missed some option ?

Kainz · 25 May 2012 at 09:30

I use Desktop Restore on our shambolic pos P4 XP machines here at work. It's small and runs flawlessly in the background. No idea how it would perform on a modern OS though.

biuro74 · 25 May 2012 at 12:50

.. by J. O'Connel

I use it now, too - because I have to use something.
This software doesn't allow to copy icon positions between profiles, so let's imagine I have to move all icons twice - separately for both profiles (with and without TV plugged in).

There's so many software available and I have no time to check all of them, unfortunately. So sad - such issue with icon positioning might create OS or drivers written down badly :/

Any *good* soft for icon position save/restore ?

Any good soft for icon position save/restore ?