Comments on: Save and Restore Desktop Icon Layout in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:50:42 +0000

Why does it not run with Win7 64-bit?
Or is there an other solution to do this under win7?

thanks

By: John P

John P — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:14:03 +0000

Wouldn’t it be safer to add a confirmation (Yes/No Before Continuing to Save/Restore Layout) dialog before actually executing the selected right-click command to prevent the user from accidentally clicking the WRONG command – which is easy to do even if you DON’T have poor hand-eye coordination (shaky mouse control) “thanks” to old age, disease, etc?

Or else add a 2nd option to restore the icon layout using a backup copy of the now-previously saved layout in case said layout is overwritten by the “Save Current Layout” command being accidentally selected?

Currently – even w/o shaky hands, I have to be very careful in doing so as to avoid clicking the wrong command and therefore erasing my preferred layout.

By: Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:16:23 +0000

@jackdr: Launch Regedit.exe and import the REG file manually, via the File menu.

By: jackdr

jackdr — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:41:24 +0000

I am Running Vista Home Premium and cannot Merge the LAYOUT.REG.

I get the MERGE option on R-Click, but instead of merging to registry, it opens the file in Notepad.

Any Suggestions?

By: Dirk Haar

Dirk Haar — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:53:08 +0000

It works on my XP pro installtion, but mostly after restoring the resolution to 1600*1200 I have to choose RESTORE up to three times to get the last stored layout back.
Any suggestions why?

By: Rich Sensale

Rich Sensale — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:21:52 +0000

Hi. I am running Vista 64 Ultimate. I am able to merge the script, but after that, nothing happens. When I right click the desktop, I do not get the save and restore options. I know this works fine on my Vista 32 machine. Is there a tweak that needs to be done for the 64Bit vista?

By: AvrohomD

AvrohomD — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:58:23 +0000

Excellent! Works like a charm!

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:25:18 +0000

Vista64 is not allowing me to save the layout.dll to the windows\system32 directory. Any suggestions?

Thanks