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niteowl - 27 Jun 2006 02:14 GMT

Hi all,

I have a win98se machine, ASUS P5A-B motherboard, 450mhz K6-2 chip, 107
PCI/AGP Blade vid card, and this problem has been there since first
building this box. It seems I did a registry hack to reverse the diplay
setting, but now can't remember exactly what I was told so many years ago.

Anyone have an idea how to reset this? I had changed it thinking because I
was running multi- monitors it was necessary at the time as the icons lined
up on the wrong side of the screen.. but now since it's only running one
monitor and having the same issue, it appears to be something else.

The "new" thing it started doing is: when I reboot the machine all the
icons go back to the previous locations on the desktop... I've moved them
now 3 times, and each time I reboot they go back like they were before. My
Computer, Recycle, Network Neighborhood, etc. all line up on the right side
of the screen. ???

thanks in advance for any suggestions.

niteowl

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Ron Badour - 27 Jun 2006 07:15 GMT

I don't know what registry hack you might have used. If you don't find the
answer, you can do a work around by using a freeware program that will
remember the locations of the shortcuts and reset them for you instead of
having to manually move them. ActivIcons:
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html

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niteowl - 29 Jun 2006 13:37 GMT

Ron,

thanks, that worked great...

it still comes up the same, but once this program loads, it fixes the
display.

It seems the hack was something to do with the X axis, like switching the
audio left and right outputs except in the vid display.. but I don't
remember for sure.. I 've checked the video adapter and there is nothing on
there to change, so I'm thinking it was something in the registry that I
changed.

If you have any ideas about where to look for that type of setting, I'd like
to get it fixed. I suppose I could always just reinstall from scratch, but
it's doesn't quite bother me that much... yet. :)

Thanks again for the active icon program.

niteowl

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