Dip - Desktop Icon Positioner - by Jim Giordano
This code and program released to the public domain for any purpose.
This program allows you to position the icons on your desktop precisely using the keyboard cursor keys or a mouse.
You may select one or more icons from the listview. If you click on a direction arrow, you may then move them as a unit one pixel at a time with either the mouse or keyboard. You may also enter an X or Y coordinate for them, or enter a delta to space them out.
For large movements, you may move the items directly on the desktop as usual, and when you return, the new positions will be updated in the Dip table for fine adjustment.
You may restore the positions of any icons to the position they had when Dip was started.
You may sort on any column in the listview, for example X or Y to make lining up rows or columns easier.
You may save many different layouts as desired, for example, one for each screen resolution.
There are no entries made in the registry. Each copy of Dip is self-contained in it's own folder as desired.
If Auto Arrange and or Align to Grid are set, the program will make it's best attempt at unsetting them, and updating the registry so that they will not be set upon bootup.
Unattended options:
If you enter a known switch on the command line, Dip will set the icon
positions and exit. Options are -r key or -d for saved default.
Key is the name you entered when you selected menu option
File/Save to user supplied key
e.g.
Dip -r 1024x768
Dip /d
Dip -r "big key name with embeded blanks"
Notes:
This program should work on any version of Windows NT. Windows 98 support has been removed.
I use this as a workhorse program so it could use some work cosmetically.
There are many other programs that do a similar job, so try some others too.
p.s. Please use at your own risk and take backups. Windows 10 is so flakey, there's no telling what the next update will do.
Last update: 4/22/18.
