3 Tools for Saving Desktop Icon Positions
In: Lists|Utilities
2
Jul
2009
Desktop is the face of your computer and organizing icons and other applications shortcuts on your desktop is so important to keep it clean and well organized. Position the icons on the desktop and you can reach the icons easily and get used to the position of the icon on the desktop and click them quickly. In an event of computer crash or by the means of some software or when you change the screen resolution the position of icons on the desktop will be change and you may even loss some of the icons from the desktop. In this case rearranging icon can be a task to simplify this task you can use some of the desktop icon restore applications that saves your desktop icon positions and restores them at your will. Here in are three super applications that help you in this regard.
1) DesktopOK
This is a small application that records your desktop icon layout and helps you to restore the desktop layout at your will. Using this application is very simple all that you have to do is click the save and restore button to complete the task. After you have positioned all the icons according to your convenience now click on the save button to save the layout. The cool feature in this application is you can save multiple layouts such that you can switch between layouts when you are using multiple monitors like the external monitor and the laptop. Just run this application when you want to save or restore the desktop layout.

2) IconRestorer
This application is also used to save and restore your desktop icon layout like the DesktopOK. IconRestorer has got many more features than DesktopOK using this application you can effectively manage your desktop space by arranging the icons in list. When you have got similar icon like shortcuts to other applications you can arrange all the shortcuts in a list and effectively save the desktop space to include other important things. This application is fully compatible with Windows 32-bit and 64-bit varieties such that you can use this application on even Windows Vista. This application features Auto save and backup preview and this application can even restore the desktop wallpaper this is an optional feature.

3) Desktop Restore
Desktop restore is a very small program that helps you to restore icon position on your desktop. It runs on Windows XP, 2000 and Vista Operating systems and comes in a 248K bytes. It will save the icon layout of your desktop and with one click you can restore your Desktop layout in an event of crash or when you have changed your screen resolution. When playing some games your screen resolution changes automatically during this time some of the icons may crash. So you can easily restore your well organized desktop layout you can save multiple layout even in a single screen resolution.

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