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Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter

From	"A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind>
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Subject	Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter
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Organization	Xennanews
Date	2014-07-20 01:45 +0200

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 >>> You may want to use an utility to delete the position of the 
 >>> desktop.
 >>> didn't work for me at all

 >> movingdesktopobjects100.zip
 
 > That was the utility, the one which unfortunately didn't
 > solve it at all, I was talking about.
 
 >> they do get messed up from time to time, and you
 >> will need to stop the icons from moving again.
 
 > Again I never experienced that., once it worked using a trick
 > which any user can try:
 
 > Shutdown... -> Restart -> OK-button

Third system, same results. No more icons moving to the south. I also 
tried "SETBOOT /D", but that didn't kickstart the magic. Nor does any 
CAD-related reboot. This time the machine was an IBM ThinkPad X20, 
which has to be booted cold to avoid a fatal PCMCIA-related error, so 
most likely it's related to the way this specific shutdown works 
and/or the changed  WPS setting (restarting is sticky, you'll have to 
reset it to Shutdown... -> Shutdown later).

Required steps (eCS 1.2), without  any icons too close to the edges of
the desktop: cold boot, use the WPS scrollbar to restore the desired 
layout and to remove the scrollbar, Shutdown... -> Restart-radio 
button -> OK-button, power off before the OS is started 
(X20-specific), cold boot  (X20-specific). Optional: enable the OS' 
WPS backup to save this situation next time, and Shutdown... -> 
Shutdown to restore that setting.

If movingdesktopobjects100.zip worked for you (beyond removing an INI 
file entry), then YMMV.


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Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-20 01:45 +0200
  Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-20 08:32 +0200
    Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2014-07-20 17:43 +0000
      Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-21 00:39 +0200
        Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2014-07-21 17:16 +0000
          Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-22 00:24 +0200
            Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2014-07-21 23:21 +0000
              Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-22 10:19 +0200
                Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2014-07-22 16:13 +0000
                Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-24 01:09 +0200
              Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter Andreas Schnellbacher <aschn@despammed.com> - 2014-07-23 00:31 +0200
                Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-24 01:25 +0200
                Re: SOLVED?: moving desktop icons with eCenter "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2014-07-24 02:40 +0200

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