DesktopICON
Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 05 April 2021
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NAME
DesktopICON - save and restore icons and its locations on Windows desktop
SYNOPSIS
WA2LWinTools/bin/DesktopICON
[
-h
|
-i
|
-u
|
-V
]
DesktopICON
-s
DesktopICON
-p
save
|
(
-l
|
-r
)
[
save
]
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/WinTools
DESCRIPTION
Automatically save
Desktop
icons and its position on login.
To restore the icons and its positions, start the
DesktopICON
command and select a saved version of the icons
and its layout on the
Desktop.
The
DesktopICON
command keeps 14
distinct saves of the
Desktop
icons and its positions.
OPTIONS
- -h
-
usage message.
- -i
-
install the
DesktopICON
command to
'Startup'
in the
Windows Start Menu to automatically save the icons and
its positions.
- -u
-
uninstall the
DesktopICON
shortcut from
'Startup'
in the
Windows Start Menu.
- -V
-
print program version.
- -s
-
save desktop icons and its positions.
- -l [ save ]
-
list distinct saved icons and its positions.
If the
save
is not given all available saves are listed, if
save
is specified, details about the saved icon shortcuts
are listed.
- -p save
-
print more details of saved icons.
- -r [ save ]
-
restore saved icons and its positions.
On the command line the
save
has to be specified to restore a specific icon save,
if the
DesktopICON
command is started from the
'Start Menu'
or a double-click, a list of available saves is presented
for selection.
ENVIRONMENT
-
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
no error.
- 4
-
usage message displayed.
- 5
-
version message displayed.
FILES
- var/db/desktopicon/
-
saved icons and positions.
EXAMPLES
-
SEE ALSO
wintoolsintro(1),
config(1m),
desktopok(1),
shortcuts(1),
windowresizer(1)
NOTES
-
BUGS
The
DesktopICON
command cannot save/restore the shortcuts (=icons) created from
Microsoft™ Office programs which were created
directly out of the
'Start Menu'
thru a right click.
However, the icon positions of those shortcuts can be
saved/restored.
To also handle
Microsoft™ Office programs,
create a shortcut pointing to the related
*.exe
file of the application:
Start 'File Explorer'
→ Browse to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\
→ right click: winword.exe
→ Send to → Desktop (create shortcut)
→ rename: 'winword.exe - Shortcut' on desktop
AUTHOR
DesktopICON was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2021
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This document was created by man2html
using the manual pages.
Time: 16:31:58 GMT, September 14, 2024