My morning ritual involves having to manually open these four folders, takes only a few moments but I was hoping to find a way to automate this with Windows XP?
As for saving their position on the screen, I don't know much about that, but you could try using Winsplit Revolution. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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Ask Question. The program also has a couple of other small, but useful features under the Tools menu item. Under Windows, you can tile or cascade windows. You can then choose to show them again when you left or right click on the mouse. Overall, DesktopOK is a useful tool for Windows users who want to maintain their desktop icon layout. I have found it very useful on my office laptop because there my desktop icons constantly get scattered whenever I connect my laptop to an external display or projector.
Now I can bring my desktop back to normal in just a couple of clicks. Icon Restore installs a DLL file called layout. By Windows system icon, this means you can right-click on My Computer, My Documents, or the Recycle Bin to access the new menu options. Once you have arranged the icons on your desktop in the desired way, go ahead and right-click on My Computer and left-click on Save Desktop Icon Layout.
Now if your computer screen resolution ever changes or you have to start your computer in Safe Mode, etc, you can easily restore your previous icon positions by right-clicking and choosing Restore Desktop Icon Layout. There are other programs out there that are more advanced and allow you to do things like create multiple icon layouts, etc, but this program is free and works well for most people! This is where WindowManager steps in and makes sure your windows are placed exactly where you want them every time you open them.
WindowManager even allows you to lock the position and size of any window, so that it will always open at the same spot no matter where you move it. The window handling is fully customizable and you can set up special rules for your favorite or most frequently used windows. This Demo describes how TaskLayout works. This is an old question but I thought I would help the people who are coming back to read the answer to this question.
I think this is actually a common program that people think that they want. Second, I've tried a lot of them, and let me just warn you that you might not get the results that you were looking for.
The problem is that you might have a certain layout in ming but you will inevitably need to open up another window for some other information that you need with this layout. Then, where should this window be placed? And, then what happens when you need to keep the window open and even open another one? It starts to get really confusing.
It's not the ultimate solution that I thought it would be. I thought I could combine the idea of virtual desktops with saved layouts but it didn't work out as planned. But, I'm not going to stop you from trying though! Here is a list of programs and although I haven't tried most of them, I tried a few of the popular ones and even paid for 2 of them.
Voluntarily donated. It took me a long time to even create this list because I was looking for the "perfect" window layout manager.
But, I later found out that it wasn't the program that was the problem. It was my idea of what I wanted. Here are the Window Layout Managers I did find over 2 years and when I get the extra time, I'll update this answer and write in more detail my experiences with them.
So, in no particular order, here they are:. As I told you, there are a lot of them! As I was typing them, I realized that a few of the programs are not technically window layout managers so I'll think about it and remove them if they really don't fit in the category. What I think is enlightening is that so many developers including Microsoft created a window layout manager and they all stopped any real significant development after a certain point.
I think it kinda' shows that it doesn't really do what people initially think it will do. This is what exactly happened to me! As suggested by panofish, here's a link mirror to AutoHotkey that does much of what's required by the OP.
The part of being able to save several layouts would require to do some editing of the autohotkey script, possibly creating 1 storage file per layout. And, it's free. I consider it a bug. So, no solution to this? Can I assume it will be fixed before release? Monday, January 26, PM. I guess I just don't understand the importance of having a certain window open the same place each and evey time. Tuesday, January 27, AM.
DarienHawk67 said: I guess I just don't understand the importance of having a certain window open the same place each and evey time. Sunday, February 1, AM. Sunday, February 1, PM. Hello, Yes i understand now. I will submit feedback, thanks, and thanks for responding.
With the former, the described behavior looks broken; with the later, it makes sense as that is the last position you had the Explorer application open. And IMHO, opening a folder on the desktop is the only place where the former "the window is the folder" model still feels like it makes the most sense. Everywhere else in the W7 UI, the "Explorer as an app" model is at least as valid and moreso in the taskbar.
I think MS should give up the pretense of the former model. Explorer is a file manager application and give it the dignity of a name in the titlebar too. Windows XP remembers the postion of all windows. I never had a problem with Windows XP. Monday, February 2, AM. I have exactly the same gripe!
I have links on my desktop for a few folders, in XP I can open them and they always remember the settings. In Win7, they all remember the last setting of the last folder opened. This is a gigantic step backwards, I'm stunned that something this obvious is missing! Tuesday, May 26, PM. In case someone ist interested. I had the same problem as the topic starter but managed to do a workaround using AutoHotKey and the following little script: run explorer.
AutoHotKey is a free and easy to use scripting tool. Just google for it Tuesday, June 9, AM. Tuesday, June 9, PM. I completely understand walk2k's frustration, Windows' desktop management totally blows and to express my disgust with MS in that regard would require language that would get me banned from internet for life. While I as a programmer might understand difficulty in managing windows of several instances of the same app there are ways of doing it to a much greater degree and none simpler than utilizing the power of a shortcut.
Not perfect but would achieve a lot of goals. The list goes on. But it would be nice to have a shortcut which would open an instance of Firefox on that screen so I can browse my whatevers. Not exactly a common scenario I agree, but then that's just one use and there are plenty of "normal" circumstances where I would like to have a particular arrangement.
And if they find that difficult, well, there really isn't much hope for some more advanced management. The thing that really frosts my butt is it worked in all previous versions of Windows!
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