The 'Arrange Icons By' Options

Hi People

Did you try the tip on the last post?

If you did you would have seen much more than what we dealt with.

I mean look at the picture below,  the Arrange Icons By
(Note here that you left click to set an option - a tick will appear when an option is set - see below)

The Right Click Options  From The Desktop - The 'Arrange Icons By ' section

As you can see there are a lot more options, so let's go through them.

The Sort By Section
The top four items are the sort order, which allow you to sort your desktop items by Name, Size, Type, or Modified.




The first three are probably quite self explanatory (type is the type of file it is for example a program file, a shortcut for a picture, or drive).

The 'modified' option is the one which may cause some scratching of heads.
It refers to how recently the files have been used.  This might need a bit of explanation. OK, so when a file (or folder) is created, the date and time is kept as TWO values (the 'creation' date/time and the 'modified' date/time - exactly the same at the start).  Now every time the file is used the 'modified' values for date/time are changed to the exact date/time it was opened..

Next up the Arrangement Section


The 'Show in Groups' is greyed out and not available on the diagram.
The 'Auto Arrange' option will move all the icons ( in the order set in the Sort By Section), as far left and then down the desktop.  Any icon moved will pop back to the group on being dropped.

The 'Align to Grid' will place each icon at a set distance from its neighbours.  The 'Grid' is invisible and inactive unless this option is ticked.

The Other Options Section


You may be surprised to learn that you can actually have all your icons removed (visibly) from the desktop.  To do this just left click on the 'Show Desktop Icons' (this will remove the tick next to 'Show Desktop Icons')

The 'Lock Web Items on Desktop' option is only if you have used the 'Web' tab on the 'Customise' button from the 'Properties' menu (more on this on a later post).

Finally you can 'Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard' which will remove the little used icons from the desktop for you.

So there you have it so far

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And Thank You for your kind attention

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Hi

Here's a handy hint today

Have you got a game, or other software that requires the CD to be left in the drive.

Well with the aid of a couple of free pieces of software, you could be running the software from your hard drive.

To do this you will need to first of a create an ISO file of your CD. A good program for this is Imgburn.

Download the file and install it. Pop the CD into the drive and select 'Create image file from disc' option. Follow the on screen info and place the .iso file where you can get at it easily (I suggest in a folder in off your c: drive root).

Once you have completed the task, then you are ready for stage two, installing the software.

Download a copy of Magic Disk

Download the file and install it. Note here it will manage more than one image so you could have multiple 'CD's available and in general at no more than a click of an icon.

Once it has installed, you will be asked to reboot your computer.

In the system tray (bottom right hand side of your screen), you will see a small cd icon (if it is not visible you can see by left clicking on the '<' just to the left of the system tray). Now right click on the icon, this will bring up a menu.



Select 'Virtual CD/DVD ROM' then select the drive letter: No media (e.g. F:No Media). From the menu pick the 'Mount' option. This allows you to search for the ISO file you created with ImgBurn earlier. Click 'Open' then follow the installation procedure for the game.


When the installation is complete, find the program launch on the 'All Programs' menu and run
Have fun

Further notes here:

This could apply to DVD games/software as well

Have all your favourite programs available from desktop icons

The CDs / DVDs can be put safely aside as 'backups'

See you next time

Prometheus1618

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Organise Your Desktop

Hi Again

Another quickie blog item for you

Has your desktop got crowded with icons, try this

Fences

This is a nifty little program and helps control the bulging desktop icons.

Or you could create a number of folders on the desktop such as video / documents / spreadsheet / etc links in appropriately named folders. Sorted.

Have fun

Thank You




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