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|    Auric__ to The Real Bev    |
|    Re: Icon sorting    |
|    02 Jul 09 14:23:18    |
      From: not.my.real@email.address              On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:58:46 GMT, The Real Bev wrote:              > I used to organize my 50 or so desktop icons in reasonable ways -- to       > me, anyway. Unfortunately, every once in a while something would happen       > (mostly trying to start XP without having my KVM switch switched to the       > windows machine so it could make the proper monitor settings) to       > reorganize them in ways I didn't like.       >       > I finally gave up and set the sort order to 'alphabetical', which is       > mindlessly reproducible. Fine, except it does it twice. One group of       > icons a-z and then a second group of different icons a-z. I've tried       > several reorganizations, but they always end up that way.       >       > I'm tired of playing around. What's happening?              I would guess that one group is on *your* desktop (...\username\Desktop) and       the other is on the "all users" desktop (...\All Users\Desktop) -- but that's       just a guess.              --       Wise man say, forgiveness is divine,       but never pay full price for late pizza.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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