Restore your desktop when the icons get “rearranged”.
Melba23 and I found we were working on very similar ideas to restore the Desktop icons to their normal place if they became “rearranged”. Vista seems to like this doing on occasion just for fun – but we all know some apps and games which change the display resolution or move icons around. This annoys “tidy” people who like their desktops arranged “just so” – I am particularly thinking of this desktop when I say that! 
We combined efforts and here is the result of our labors.
Operation is easy – press “Save” to store a particular configuration and “Restore” to reset the icons to the saved positions in the selected configuration file. “Delete” allows you to remove unwanted configuration files from the list. There is a command line option so that the restoration can be run via HotKeys if required (that is why the script warns that it should be compiled for full functionality). You can decide what to do with any icons that have been added since you last saved the configuration file – the default is to put them in the top-left corner, but you can also banish them way off-screen or, more sensibly, specify a location for them.
A new feature as of ICU v2.8 is the optional Desktop Contextmenu Integration (DCI) for Win7 (Win7 only because Microsoft implemented an easy way to do this through the registry as of this release).
Used AutoIt Versions
- AU 3.3.2.0 up to ICU 2.3
- AU 3.3.6.0 up to ICU 2.4
- AU 3.3.6.1
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It works fine at least on the XP SP3, Vista and Win7 machines I tested it on. If you find bugs please let me know.
Kudos to: Melba23
Please let me know if you found some piece of code in the source for which I forgot to mention a credit.
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Please tell me does this application use the registry?
Could this application be made to run from a flashdrive?
Many thanks for all your fine work.
The integration into the Desktop right-click contextmenu feature (DCI; on Win7 only) writes to the registry. ICU asks you on the first startup if you want to use this feature and you don’t have to. Otherwise it should run just fine from a flashdrive
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