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Old April 12th 18, 10:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_2_]
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Default Where are the desktop icon settings stored in 98se?

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On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:41:59 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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http://contents.driverguide.com/cont...1&path=WINDOWS
%2FDESKTOP%2Flooney%2FTOOLS%2FWINDOWS%2FEZDESK%2F README.TXT
has version 1.7 (78.5 KB)
http://www.brothersoft.com/ezdesk-do...19.html?bottom
has version 1.8 (NOT "Server 1 Official Download" - that's over 3M, so
obviously has PUPs or worse; Server 2 was 85K. Or that was the case just
now)


Thanks

The driverguide one refused to let me download. Their idiotic captcha
said I need to upgrade my browser. I kindly filpped them the bird, used
the best of my collection of F-words and moved on. (I'll add them to my
HOST file later on, so I dont have to waste another 10 min waiting for
their useless site to load).


I didn't want to recommend them - sites with "driver" in the name are
generally at best a waste of time IMO, possibly worse - but they were
the first one I found that actually had the file.

Server 2 on brothersoft worked fine. I installed it, and like it a lot.
I saved my desktop. Then I intentionally screwed it up my icons. I
clicked Restore and it was all fixed. COOL!!! A Great program! I should
have had this years ago. What i have is ver 1.8 and am using it on
Win98se with Kernel-EX..


It works without Kernel-EX as well. I like it too: does what it says on
the tin, as we say, without any fuss (and you can store an arrangement
for each resolution, too), and works under XP too. Not, sadly, 7 -
either iconoid or DesktopOK are my choices here. The one _theoretical_
disadvantage of EZDesk (1.8 was I think the last version) is that it
still stores its settings in the registry; the only one that I know
actually stores the settings in a file is
https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK - I'm not sure if
that works under '98, though there is _a_ mention of 98 on that page.
But I never found EZDesk storing its settings in the registry to
actually cause a problem.
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