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by VirtuaMan
28.09.2016 07:48:54
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

I know what is going on.
It is my Emsisoft Internet Security that is downloading an update or two.
by VirtuaMan
25.09.2016 10:25:52
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Even if some do not want to believe it, there is evidence that an ongoing download interferes with the startup of Dexpot. If I disconnect the Internet when starting Windows 7, the icons are often well ordered even at the first start of Dexpot. Or then, at least after the restart with my batch file. ...
by VirtuaMan
07.09.2016 08:03:17
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

No real difference...

IF SOMEONE WOULD ROLL UP THE SLEEVES AND DO SOME REAL WORK ON DEXPOT, IT WOULD BE WORTH PAYING FOR IT!
Because it is GOOD, otherwise.
by VirtuaMan
04.09.2016 09:30:41
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Today my Internet Security had a bigger than usual chunk of update downloads when I started my computer. It took correspondingly longer to get it down. Then even the batch file trick did not work well and I had to run the batch file a second time when the download was over. After that it was OK. Is ...
by VirtuaMan
03.09.2016 09:24:29
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

I really do have the impression that a download during startup, such as an update to the installed Internet Security, does hamper with the start of Dexpot.
It is often slowed down when such an update comes and it sometimes even hangs for a while.
by VirtuaMan
28.08.2016 09:26:04
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

"unfortunately, we were never able to reproduce the issue. I doubt this is related to auto-start at all. Flickering usually results from the auto arrange-option not being disabled before Dexpot repositions the desktop icons." Well, see my remarks above about a computer to try it on. Then y...
by VirtuaMan
26.08.2016 16:52:09
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

To investigate this it is, in my view, insufficient to use a simple "research" computer with little more than Win7 running - and with Dexpot, of course. But one with very many applications and an Internet Security Suite installed that at startup downloads updates. And with many autostart a...
by VirtuaMan
26.08.2016 16:12:38
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Well, it is sad, but there seems to be no real effort taken to solve this problem. We only have a workaround. I used Dexpot several years now. First and without any problems in WinXP. Then the problems started with Win7. If there were not these problems, Dexpot would, in my view, be the very best. B...
by VirtuaMan
19.08.2016 18:13:21
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

How would this explain the phenomenon that from one start of Windows to the other many icons become disordered, and not in the same way? Sometimes, maybe often, but not always. Quite irregularly. And why sometimes a few icons jump up and down before they settle? And how could that help solving the p...
by VirtuaMan
14.08.2016 10:37:46
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Yes, flicker they do, up and down - some of the icons.
But the way I use my workaround they soon settle in the right position.
That flickering is a remarkable symptom that I think should lead to finding a reason for the problem when investigated.
by VirtuaMan
12.08.2016 09:03:05
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Strange! I have never observed it occurring when I switch screens. If the icons are disordered, they are after the (in my case first) start of Dexpot and then do not change still more when changing screen. Then - in my case - they are ordered after running the batch file. As concerns interference fr...
by VirtuaMan
11.08.2016 11:19:44
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

One observation: I have the impression that when Dexpot autostarts directly (before using the batch file) the icons get disordered if a download is running at the same time. My Antivirus downloads new signatures right at start (if a new download is available right then), and it appears to me that th...
by VirtuaMan
10.08.2016 19:03:49
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

So far, what I described in my last post works fine for me. Working around ... But how do you use ReIcon? In autostart or running it manually? As concerns moving icons between desks I have no problem. Only, if I install a new application in the first window, its icon will appear in all windows. If I...
by VirtuaMan
10.08.2016 10:03:12
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Now I have come a little bit further.... I unmarked "Start with Windows" in the Dexpot settings and instead let Dexpot autostart immediately with Startup Delayer running Dexpot.exe. Then Startup Delayer after 50 seconds also starts RestartDesktop.bat, which is as follows: @echo off taskkil...
by VirtuaMan
01.08.2016 12:09:59
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

The batch file I wrote about above usually works for me, but not always. I have now changed it to @echo off taskkill /f /IM DexControl.exe taskkill /f /IM dexpot.exe TIMEOUT /T 6 "C:\_UTILITIES\Dexpot\dexpot.exe" TIMEOUT /T 6 taskkill /f /IM DexControl.exe taskkill /f /IM dexpot.exe TIMEOU...
by VirtuaMan
04.07.2016 13:41:07
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

Strangely enough the autostart with a delay of 20 seconds works quite well in my laptop, but no reasonable delay works well in my desktop.
by VirtuaMan
04.07.2016 10:47:56
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

It seems a bit better to have a small delay between killiing and starting. Here 4 seconds:
@echo off
taskkill /f /IM dexpot.exe
TIMEOUT /T 4
start "" "C:\_UTILITIES\Dexpot\dexpot.exe"
CLS
by VirtuaMan
03.07.2016 15:52:57
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

I made a simple batch file RestartDexpot.bat: @echo off taskkill /f /IM dexpot.exe start "" "C:\_UTILITIES\Dexpot\dexpot.exe" Now I have Dexpot in Autostart without delay and Startup Delayer then starts the batch file after 15 sekonds (plus startup time for the Delayer). It so fa...
by VirtuaMan
02.07.2016 18:01:10
Forum: Support
Topic: My desktop icons are disordered
Replies: 76
Views: 125631

Re: My desktop icons are disordered

I use Dexpot since the beginning of WinXP, where it always worked well. But since I changed to Win7 (Ultimate) it has become a PiA... Almost every time I start Windows, the icons are almost OK in Window 1 and also in Window 2 (where I have only few icons), but in Window 3 and 4 they are messed up. S...

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