The quick and dirty??”not to mention
free??”solution is to use an add-on released by Microsoft several years ago;
with a little tweak, it works just fine in Vista (32-bit edition only). Here??™s
how you install and use it:
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Shell Tweaks
1. Go to http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/layout and download
the layout.zip file, saving it to your desktop.
2. Open layout.zip, and inside you??™ll find two files. The .dll file you can
find elsewhere on the Web, but the other (the .reg file) has been specifically
modified for this book to work with Vista.
3. Copy the layout.dll file to your C:\Windows\System32 folder.
4. Double-click the other file, install.reg, and answer Yes when asked
whether you want to continue. (See Chapter 3 for more information on
.reg files.)
5. Next, right-click an empty area of your desktop and select Save Desktop
Icon Layout.
6. The next time Windows messes up your icons, just right-click an empty
area of your desktop and select Restore Desktop Icon Layout.
Now, if Windows isn??™t spontaneously rearranging your desktop icons, but
refuses to let you put them where you want them, there??™s a fix for that, too.
This problem is caused by either one of two mechanisms designed to help
keep your desktop icons tidy, and you??™ll have to turn at least one of them off
to more freely place your desktop icons. Right-click an empty area of the
desktop, select View, and turn off the Auto Arrange option.
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