controlling resolution and icon positions

["Jeff Haydu" <jhaydu>]

Here's a possible, high tech solution for the problem of icon
disarray after your screen resolution has been changed. It just
appeared on ZDNET's new fil
list,

http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode
=0014G6

The description follows.

A low tech solution that I used for this problem was to threaten my
son with the loss of computer gaming if he didn't put my icons back
where they belonged. Crude, but effective.

Jeff

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1st QuickRes Light
12-14-99

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    1st QuickRes Light controls display settings, wallpapers, screen
savers and color schemes from a convenient system tray icon. Using
1st QuickRes you can switch color depth, resolutionand refresh rate
on-the-fly, with preview of yourchanges and options to confirm them
or not. While changing desktop size, 1st QuickRes retains positions
and sizes of desktop windows and icons. You can define your own
favorite display settings with fast access using tray menu or
keyboard short cuts. Pre-built favorites allows you to incrementally
enlarge or reduce the desktop size. You may browse screen savers
using resizable preview dialog. Any screen saver can be launched,
configured, or set as the default directly from the tray menu. Also
you can configure options to launch screen savers quickly by
double-clicking the tray icon. You have full wallpaper control with
1st QuickRes. You can browse wallpapers in a dialog with preview or
switch wallpapers directly from the tray menu. You can create a list
of your favorite JPEG images and set them as wallpapers. 1st QuickRes
allows you to preview and switch desktop color schemes. Favorite
screen savers, wallpapers and color schemes can be included in the
randomize list and later changed randomly every hour or at Windows
startup. You may apply custom display settings to any applicationor
document using 1st QuickRes shell extension. You can reorder or hide
unnecessary items from the tray menu. 1st QuickRes supports Windows
95/98/NT and Windows 2000. 1st QuickRes Light is a freeware version
of 1st QuickRes. Light version has limited screen saver, wallpaper
and colorscheme support, allows only 3 favorite modes, does not
retain desktop windows positions, does not support custom display
settings for applications but you can use it endlessly for FREE! If
you wish to get the full power of 1st QuickRes, order the Pro
version. This program has not yet been reviewed.
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Jeff Haydu
Dept. of Sociology
UC-San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
858-534-5310