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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
In message , dadiOH
writes: a wrote: with 'dispose' i mean 'where i have put them' this is a pic http://www.iouppo.com/lite/pic/8daee...cd44db0f63.jpg i presume they went outside because they were more than one hundred and ther was non more space You might want to consider putting them on one or more toolbars. Maybe make another taskbar too for the toolbars. Is there actually a hard limit then? I thought the only such limit was files in the root directory under FAT (which _is_ about 100, IIRR). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Any fool can set up a Web site, and most of them have." - Mike Moore (or quoted by) |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , dadiOH writes: a wrote: with 'dispose' i mean 'where i have put them' this is a pic http://www.iouppo.com/lite/pic/8daee...cd44db0f63.jpg i presume they went outside because they were more than one hundred and ther was non more space You might want to consider putting them on one or more toolbars. Maybe make another taskbar too for the toolbars. Is there actually a hard limit then? I thought the only such limit was files in the root directory under FAT (which _is_ about 100, IIRR). I'm not sure what you mean. My suggestion was only that the OP could have very easy access to the shortcuts he now has on his desktop by putting them into toolbars named appropriately (which would also clean up the desktop), not that his problem with icons being "out of bounds" was due to too many. AFAIK, you can have as many desktop icons as will fit in the space. I have had his same problem at times and I normally have only a handful of icons on the desktop. I always fixed it as "who where" outlined but sans the icon saver. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
In message , dadiOH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] Is there actually a hard limit then? I thought the only such limit was files in the root directory under FAT (which _is_ about 100, IIRR). I'm not sure what you mean. My suggestion was only that the OP could have very easy access to the shortcuts he now has on his desktop by putting them into toolbars named appropriately (which would also clean up the desktop), not that his problem with icons being "out of bounds" was due to too many. AFAIK, you can have as many desktop icons as will fit in the space. [] That (you can have as many as you like) was my understanding too. I asked because someone (I think the OP) raised the possibility that there _is_ a limit. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Any fool can set up a Web site, and most of them have." - Mike Moore (or quoted by) |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
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hallo some icons are currently out the Desktop (that is out the screen dimensions) Do you have a "Magnifier" program running (Accessibility option)? i can't increase the resolution from the Control Panel so to be able to "see" them (i'm at 1024x768 that is the maximum allowed by the Control Panel screen settings) if i right click on the empty Desktot I can dispose the icon by name, date ecc... but so doing I will scramble my current disposition (I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop) so how to "catch" the icons outside the Desktop and place them inside? I'm only suggesting here that you might be fighting symptoms instead of problems. |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
"a" wrote in message news hallo some icons are currently out the Desktop (that is out the screen dimensions) i can't increase the resolution from the Control Panel so to be able to "see" them (i'm at 1024x768 that is the maximum allowed by the Control Panel screen settings) if i right click on the empty Desktot I can dispose the icon by name, date ecc... but so doing I will scramble my current disposition (I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop) so how to "catch" the icons outside the Desktop and place them inside? And the maximum allowed Monitors is? And the maximum allowed Display Adapter Is? -- http://mynews.ath.cx |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:16:46 -0600, "MyNews"
wrote: And the maximum allowed Monitors is? And the maximum allowed Display Adapter Is? monitor.. i'm with 98, i presume only one monitor is supported display adpater ... i presume i 1024x768 is the maximum anyway changing/wotking with the two above devices will be too tricky... i solved in another manner (se my following post) |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:51:22 +0100, a wrote:
i create a new folder now comparing the icons listed in the Explorer (about100) and the ones displayed on the Desktop (about 80) i manually transferred the 20 i was able to see in Explorer in this newly folder then extracted again these 20 icons (one by one) on a visible portion of the Desktop note: another possible reason that caused the problem, was the use of the "Align to grid" command (i presume that in English the name of the command is this or a similar one): so doing, when you have many icons, some of them will go outside Desktop boundaries |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
"a" wrote in message
news some icons are currently out the Desktop (that is out the screen dimensions) . . . (I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop) Is this clutter not the main problem? There is no point keeping on the Desktop a link (icon) that you do not use every day. (I have just counted here -- 27 icons on the desktop. It is a little more crowded than usual and some will soon be removed, e.g. income tax.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
In message , a
writes: [] another possible reason that caused the problem, was the use of the "Align to grid" command (i presume that in English the name of the command is this or a similar one): (It is indeed something like that.) so doing, when you have many icons, some of them will go outside Desktop boundaries In my experience, it sometimes places icons on top of (or underneath) other icons; I haven't experienced it moving them off the desktop altogether. (I'm not saying it couldn't happen, though.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. (quoted by Neil D. Jackson [original was probably paraphrasing Clarke]) |
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Icons outside the Desktop dimensions
In message , Don Phillipson
writes: "a" wrote in message news some icons are currently out the Desktop (that is out the screen dimensions) . . . (I currently have more the 80 icons on the Desktop) Is this clutter not the main problem? There is no point keeping on the Desktop a link (icon) that you do not use every day. It's a little arrogant to tell others how to use their computers. "a" - and I - choose to have quite a lot of icons; each to his own. Keeping actual _files_, rather than shortcuts to them, on the desktop _can_ slow things down, especially in a roaming profile situation, but those are unlikely to be using roaming profiles these days. (I have just counted here -- 27 icons on the desktop. It is a little more crowded than usual and some will soon be removed, e.g. income tax.) How many of those have you used today (or this week)? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. (quoted by Neil D. Jackson [original was probably paraphrasing Clarke]) |
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