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• How to lock the desktop icons in a multiple monitor configuration

  Original title: lock the desktop icons - and display

  Working with Windows 7 Home Premium has a problem processing 2 pieces: no matter how many times I said I want the display screen appears on the monitor, the screen of the computer, every day he arbitrarily returns to the computer screen only. That creates the 2nd problem: the desktop icons that I have arranged for the largest monitor rearrange themselves to adapt to the computer screen. Is there a way I can lock the icons in this position that I used to be able to do? Or is it possible that I can keep the display to go back to the computer screen? (I'm careful to apply the instructions to display before the specified seconds elapse).

   

  Hello

  I suggest you to go through the steps mentioned in the link and the Coachman.

  On a system running Microsoft Windows 7, the desktop icons can be moved to positions at random during another monitor main screen.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2001334/

  See also:

  Move windows between multiple monitors

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/move-Windows-between-multiple-monitors

  Work and play better with multiple monitors

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/work-and-play-better-with-multiple-monitors

  Setting up dual monitor: two screens are better than one

  http://www.Microsoft.com/athome/organization/twomonitors.aspx

• How can I lock the desktop icons?

  I can't LOCK the icon on my desktop items. I clicked right on the desktop and via the locking elements checked properties, but they are easily moved and NOT locked. I tried to lock in "Appearances and themes", but they will NOT lock. How can I get that they cease to move and stay put locking. Any help would be graciously appreciated. And, no, I'm not changing my resolution I know moves them.

  Hi there, have you tried? Click with the right button on a blank space on your desktop, highlight the icons on the desktop, check on "locking up icons" and organize the uncheck'auto?

• Lock the desktop icons

  I am trying to lock my desktop icons and I see the answers that the note to "check the Incons lock". Where can I find it. When I right click on the mouse and the desktop icons that I don't get the option lock. A consultant will help you. Thank you

  On a box empty your office
  Right click > view > deselect "auto arrange" and align the icons on a grid.

  I hope this helps.

• How to lock the desktop icons in place

  original title: the desktop icons

  My icons on the desktop still moved.  How can I lock them in place?

  RT click on the desktop, sort by, is any option checked?

• Unlock windows box disappears after windows automatically locks the screen

  Hello

  I have a professional Windows XP Tablet from Lenovo X 200 ongoing execution machine. This problem does not occur * too * often, but enough to be annoying.

  After 15 minutes of inactiviy, windows is the standard screen saver routine by locking the desktop computer. Meanwhile, the white box that says click on Ctrl-alt-del to enter your password is visible. There is also the virtual keyboard on the screen.

  From time to time, I go back to my computer to see that white box unlock is missing! There is no way for me to go back to windows! I have literally remove the battery and restart. During this time, I lost all my unsaved data... not to mention that I keep not the most graceful way.

  This happened to someone? What in the world could be the cause?

  Thanks for the comments.

  Hi Jim_B_NJ,

  1. you have value to request password on Resume on the computer?

  I suggest that scan you SFC on the computer that would be a system file corrupt on the computer search and replace.

  The analysis may take some time, so be patient. Windows allows to fix corrupt or missing files it finds. If the information of the installation CD is required to fix the problem, you may be asked to insert your Windows XP installation CD.

  For more information please visit the link below.

  Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System File Checker (Sfc.exe)

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310747

  If you don't want to try windows to ask for the password after the recovery step turn it off below.

  (a) make a right-click on an empty area on the desktop

  (b) select Properties in the context menu that will open

  (c) click the screensaver tab

  (d) uncheck the box that says on Resume, password protect to disable.

  (e) click OK

  If you don't want the window Ctrl + Alt + Del on the logon screen, try the steps below.

  (a) click Start, click run, type Control Userpasswords2, and then press ENTER.
  Note The following dialog box may appear:
  You must be a member of the Administrators group on this computer to open user accounts. You are logged in as username, and this account is not a member of the Administrators group.
  In this condition, you must type the user name and password when you are prompted with the dialog box to type the user name and password of the administrator of the computer.

  (b) click the Advanced tab.

  (c) in the Secure logon section, click to clear the checkbox user must press Ctrl + Alt + Delete if you want to disable the CTRL + ALT + DELETE sequence

  How to enable or disable the CTRL + ALT + DELETE sequence for logging on Windows XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308226

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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• How to sort and organize the desktop icons in Windows Vista?

  How do sort you the icons on the desktop by name or lock the desktop under Vista icons

  Right-click on the desktop and click view.
  To get the icons to stay where it is placed on the desktop.
  Click on align on the grid and automatic uncheck their reorganization.

  To have the icon to align with the grid
  This will keep the icons of overlap between them.
  Click on snap to grid.

  To have the icons align automatically:
  The icons will be automatically aligned in the upper left corner of the office.
  Click Auto arrange.

  Not sure if that's what you are meaning.
  Let us know if that helps.

  Marilyn

• the desktop icons disappear when I connect through a VPN

  On my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, SP1 system, automatic reorganization and snap to grid are unchecked.  And I don't have problems with icons on a restart.  I have problems when I access my system in my home using a VPN and the DRC.

  Sometimes when I connect, I find that most of my desktop shortcut icons have disappeared and the few remaining ones are reorganized.  It happens every time and I did not understand a common denominator as to when it occurs.

  I copied all my desktop shortcuts to a folder on a different drive if I can put them all after they disappear, but when I copy and paste them on the desktop, they do not return to the same places they were in front.  Instead, they are lined up on the grid starting at the top left and go down and creating more columns until all the icons were pasted.

  So, I have to manually, drag and drop them where I want them to be.

  Like others who interrogated him about the desktop icons, when I right click on the desktop I do not receive a "Properties" link as shown.  I'm getting , sort by view, refresh, paste & paste the shortcut, cancel deletion, New, screen resolution, Gadgets and Personalize.

  I also tried another solution that said"right-click an empty space on your desktop and Select the desktop icons.  When I right click, I get the menu described in the previous paragraph.  Then when I start to clicking on icons to highlight, the menu disappears.  If I pointed out all the icons first and then with the right button on the desktop, the menu and the highlighting disappears.

  How can lock the desktop icons?  I agree with the donor who asked a parameter for "don't mess with my desktop computer EVER.

  Hi Jane,

  Given that the problem seems to occur when you access your system from home using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and RDC (Remote Desktop connection). I would like you to post your question in the TechNet forums for help.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?Forum=w7itpronetworking

  Thank you

  Stephanie Podder.

• Icon on the desktop problem

  I'm trying to lock the desktop icons. I am running windows 7. I right click and continued to check and uncheck everything available. Nothing seems to work. Tried to play with the registry as suggested by many forums and which also failed. As soon as I right click Refresh it now is to annoy the * out of me. -Is this something that can actually be fixed? I literally spent almost 3 hours of work and the search for solutions. Please help if possible! Thank you

  Hello

   
  I would suggest trying the following steps and check.
  a. right click on the desktop.
  b. click view.
  c. uncheck the box for auto arrange icons.

• All of a sudden I've locked the folders and files on my system. How to unlock the files?

  I'm as Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit slot. All of a sudden I've locked the folders and files on my system. I am the administrator and the only user of my computer. What happened to cause this? How to unlock the files?

  I right click on them and there is no label of 'ownership '.

  Angi

  Hello

  ·          How do you lock the folders?

  ·          The question came with all the files and folders?

  Step 1: Here's how you can take ownership of the files/folders

  a. right click on the file or folder and then click Properties.

  b. click the Security tab.

  c. click on a user name or group under group or user names.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-are-permissions

  Step 2: Run the fix it to http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_file_and_folder_diag/

  Diana

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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• Firefox asked a "refresh", computer locked up before finished, created a "old data FireFox file on the desktop.

  Firefox asked a 'refresh', I pressed the button refresh and process running, computer then locked up to complete before. He has created a "old data file FireFox" on the desktop. I need to understand how trasfer the data in the old file of data in my FureFox 'new' to allow me to access my bookmarks and other. Thank you!

  Hi Ken, Firefox will not start now, complaining that it cannot find its profile, or it starts up, but data are incomplete?

  Here is a procedure to return to your prior to refresh the data. It takes 5 minutes, but it's probably faster than the recovery of individual data files and those in a new profile from loading.

  Check inside the folder 'Old data Firefox' update adds on your desktop in a folder with a name random semi. If there is only one, that probably has your old settings and Add-ons. If there is more than one, you'll want to work with one who has been updated recently.

  Once you have identified the profile folder, that you want to restore, here is my "old profile resurrection suggested procedure:

  Overview

  Here are the steps described in more detail below:

  1. Create a new Firefox profile
  2. Delete all of this profile folder
  3. Copy in all of the old profile folder

  Create a new profile for Firefox (Windows)

  Out of Firefox and start in the Profile Manager by pasting the following text in the search box of the start menu, or the start > Run dialog box and pressing ENTER:

  firefox.exe -P
  

  Note: any time want to switch profiles, exit Firefox and return to this dialog box.

  Click on the button create a profile, give it a name like OldSettings and skip the option to change the location of the folder. Select the new profile from the dialog box, and then start Firefox.

  Open the new profile folder in Windows Explorer

  Firefox in the new profile should look like a new installation of the plant. Open the troubleshooting information page by using either:

  • button "3-bar" menu > "?" button > troubleshooting information
  • Menu help > troubleshooting information
  • type or paste everything: in the address bar and press Enter

  In the first table, click on the view file"" button. Firefox will launch your new profile folder in Windows Explorer.

  This folder open, switch back to Firefox and get out by using either:

  • "3-bar" menu button > button "power".
  • (menu bar) File > Exit

  Firefox is closed, the profile folder must be front and Center, or you can activate it by using the taskbar.

  Copy old data instead of new

  In this new profile folder you just popped open - NOT the one on your desktop - select all content (you can use Ctrl + a) and delete (you can press Delete on the keyboard).

  Leave this window open, open or switch to your folder of old data of Firefox. Consult your old profile folder. At this level, you should see a folder named bookmarkbackups among other things.

  Select all (Ctrl + a) and copy (or right-click > copy or Ctrl + c).

  Switch to the empty profile folder in another window and paste (or right-click > paste or Ctrl + v). This may take a few minutes because some files are large.

  Launch Firefox

  Firefox should start in this 'new' profile with the old resurrected profile data. Success?

• Software encryption and locking files, folders or drives?

  Hello

  Anyone know of 1 or more encryption software and locking files, folders or drives?
  I tried some software encryption a few years ago, and they seemed to corrupt the files after decryption.

  Thanks in advance

  Hi, Win7User2,

  BitLocker Drive encryption is available in Windows Vista & Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate for client computers and in Windows Server 2008.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/BitLocker

  Comparison list

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

  TrueCrypt - Free Open source...

  http://www.TrueCrypt.org/

• Receive a "error open disc can not due to the failure to lock the file

  I had a disc with a boot failure.  I thought I had my saved VM but I got only an earlier version.

  I put the disk in a USB enclosure and my new system cannot read the disc.

  I copied the VM, I need my new drive.

  When I try to open it, I get the error:

  Cannot open disk '... vmdk' or

  one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  Reason: Cannot lock the file.

  I don't have the original system, so I can't try to open it on this system.

  Is it possible that I can get this virtual machine to open?

  Thank you

  b

  At least closed tab closed virtual machine or VMware Workstation then delete all folders/files .lck to the target of the virtual machine and then try to run it again.

• Move the files, folders, and applications when you use several desktop computers

  I have configured my MacBook Pro to display several different offices, based on several types of work that I do. I'm having two problems: (1) get the apps in the dock to show only in the dock on specific and (2) workstations, get the files and folders to broadcast only on one specific office.

  Re: (1), I followed the instructions from Apple I found online, but all applications in the dock show in the dock on each other in all cases.

  Re: (2), I don't see a menu or option to specify desktop computers. They're showing on all my workstations, which isn't what I want.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  The Dock is the same, no matter what you are in office. It cannot be configured to display only the items to come on a computer desktop and other articles on others. It is similarly of the icons. An icon that you put on a desktop will appear in all work positions.

  Now you pouvez specify certain applications appear in specific jobs and this applies to the Finder as well so you can have icons of documents and folders appear on a single desktop computer. Other workstations will all show no icons. If you choose this option, you can then open a window to a folder on the desktop that has the Finder, and then move it to another office.

  Before Apple, desktops implemented, there are several utilities which enabled us to operate more as you want, but unfortunately, they are now gone.

• Windows XP SP3: Unable to start, System Restore cannot drag and drop ALL the files/folders on the desktop and applications, many unable to start, services cannot search, cannot copy or transfer the any files folders...

  After a recent power outage, my system has restarted with a weird and very common Windows problems range. The system boots fine, all my personal files/folders/apps are intact, have suddenly stopped almost all functions of applications, but many crucial functions of the Windows kernel. Everything seems to point to several Windows Services are unable to start (administrative tools on the start menu). I am running Win XP SP3 and that he was going to upgrade to Windows 7, but I wanted to backup everything in advance. As I have 29 000 hours on my C: drive and a lot of time invested in my system, files, and applications, I am extremely reluctant to risk losing my files and applications by performing any type of reinstalling Windows. Strangely, begin to almost all my apps and all my files are accessible for the most part, but I've lost the ability to drag and drop files, folders or items in a list within the applications COMPLETELY. I can't copy or paste anything, can't move the desktop icons (although I can create new files and folders). So at the moment I can't save anything or even a single file transfer to a hard drive on another storage medium. Immediate reaction: try safe mode and try the system restore safe mode has the same problems (likely due to the large number of system services that inexplicably refuses to start) and the system restore says an error window saying "system restore is not able to protect your computer at this time. try restoring the system running and restart again", which of course NEVER changes. It's the equivalent of getting a tire on your car in the middle of nowhere to find the spare tire flat and the missing Jack. I have used to be fanatical about the definition of the regular restore points, but now can not access them. I have backups of most of my personal files, but over years have lost most of the original installation CD for many of my applications (there are over 100 applications on my system) and I don't want to lose the file associations and architecture of directory tree that it took my so long to implement. I started with Win XP media center edition of first (circa 2004 or almost) and have migrated twice more of 3 hard disks and 2 computers. All this time (5 years of daily use), I have NEVER known so many malfunctions for as many Windows basic and vital functions at the same time. I tried a lot of 3rd party "windows fix - it / registry repair" apps, all have no effect. Everything I can speculate is there was some serious damage to the registry and have no idea how/why so many Services refuse to start. In MMC, more than half of the services actually start and run, the rest all give the error message "the service or dependencies is not start (error 1068).» In addition, very oddly, no. APPS or windows appear in the toolbar AT ALL, but the Quick Launch toolbar works very well, just like the tray button and start tasks (?! )!). If I reduce a window, it "disappears" (Nothing on the task bar), but I can restore it using the alt - tab keyboard shortcut to switch apps, so all applications/windows appear on the list of the Task Manager. A few apps is paralyzed bad, as the player windows media, itunes, etc. (I guess because the service windows audio can not not start), some won't start at all, but 90% of them work fine, except to try to copy or back up all files. I can create new files, however. I'm desperate to find a solution to repair XP3 Win WITHOUT losing my installed applications and files, before I try and switch to WIndows 7. Any help/suggestions/links/advice would be much appreciated. I'm an experienced user, but I've never met so many malfunctions based on the OS at a time. I, however, very painfully learned (years before that my system so complex) it's been almost a re-installation of Windows guarantees to lose my installed apps and files, the directory tree architecture associations.

  Help, please!

  I'll be honest with you - your message is so difficult to read that I don't bother to go through all that. Next time consider using white space, ball or points numbered, etc. to make your message more readable. I stopped reading after your first sentence and only scanned the rest quickly. I do not mean to hurt your feelings; just trying to help you get targeted answers you need for the future.

  The blackout has corrupted your Windows installation. Back up your data now. Since you have problems so much, it would be probably best is to remove the hard drive, put it in a USB drive enclosure and attach it to another computer to copy the data OR start the target with Linux Livecd such as Knoppix system and copy the data to an external hard drive. IOW, do not use the damaged windows to try to get your data.

  You can try a repair that will leave your programs and facility data intact, but with this widespread bribery, it is unlikely to work. However, it takes only a few minutes and is so worth a try. If the repair facility does not work there is nothing to do, but a clean install. And Yes, it will mean that over again.

  Consider buying a UPS to help prevent future damage by power outages. For a single computer, you should look for one in the area of $60 to 80. A more expensive UPS is not necessary. Another good disaster recovery strategy is to buy an external hard drive and Acronis True Image. You can image your system (and can make an incremental backup image so that your image is still current). You can apply your image and be back running that you were in relatively few minutes after a hard drive or Windows to fail.

  http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - repair install how-to
  http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean install - how-to
  http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows - you will need at hand MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - Don ' t Panic!