Comments on: DesktopOK: automatically save and restore your desktop icon positions with this tiny app

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:29:44 +0000

I hide my desktop icons, but i stack ‘em to RocketDock, so i can run the icon without have to see my desktop (through floating dock)

By: Karthik T

Karthik T — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:24:14 +0000

try http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ Its a more elegant option to achieve the same goal imo.

By: -

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:36:36 +0000

most annoying desktop wreakage is when dragging folder across desktop, when windows instead creates a “toolbar” (on display edge nearest to your imprecise folder drop)
anyway,

desksave works well. now using 8.2.1.0. ver 7.?? was also good.
start it up, do commands, then shutdown from systray contextclick.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/DeskSave.shtml
http://www.desksave.de/index.php?cont=change

By: Samer

Samer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:41:42 +0000

@ Calm Dog: thanks for the tip. I must say having the save/restore function in the context menu somehow makes a lot of sense. I used Desksave for a long time which was similar to icon restore(http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/07/12/desksave-a-lightweight-program-to-save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layouts/).

Unfortunately with Win7 64bit being my current OS these apps no longer show in the context menu (and anyway I am liking DesktopOK best). But Icon Restore at least has a way to uninstall the context menu entries, which I discovered was not the case for Desksave.

By: Calm Dog

Calm Dog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:47:55 +0000

A very simple, in fact bare-bones, app I’ve used for years is Icon Restore . Once installed, it adds two options to the context menu of all system icons – “Save desktop icon layout” and “Restore desktop icon layout”. It’s tiny, rock-solid, resource-lean, and completely unobtrusive. It doesn’t have all (any) of the cool features of DesktopOK, but it does what it does perfectly.

By: Lovesflsun

Lovesflsun — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:20:35 +0000

Not to say my way is the best, but I use “Arrange by…Modified” therefore I know what I was working on last. Simple and to the point!

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By: JK III

JK III — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:25:11 +0000

I would also recommend this. I have been using it for quite a time now and it has come handy whenever my icons got messed up due to changing resolutions, or in one case, by a wise-guy who apparently knew how to “auto-arrange” icons.

Although it takes 3 megs, it doesn’t need to be kept running in the background, and takes up negligible disk space.