ReIcon is portable freeware that enables you to save and restore your desktop layout. If you frequently change your screen resolution (e.g. to play games or use applications that require a specific resolution), you are probably familiar with the problem of your desktop icons being jumbled into a mess after you switch back to your normal resolution. ReIcon solves this problem by allowing you to save your desktop layout and restore it later with the click of a button (or with the right-click context menu).
ReIcon is very easy to use. Set your icons the way you like them, save the layout, then restore this layout later when the need arises.
ReIcon v2.0 – Tuesday 15. March 2022
– [Added] New options for System Tray menu
– [Added] Option to update the previously saved backup from the list
– [Added] some new options under the Options menu
– [Added] More than 1 restore option has been added to the right-click menu
(The ContextMenuRestoreCount value in the ini file can be changed from 1 to 6)
– [Added] Many improvements have been made in coding
Benefits:
– Save your favorite icon layout for each resolution
– Save many different layouts
– It’s portable, no need to install anything
– Unicode support
– Easily add “Save/Restore Icon Layout” to the right-click context menu
– CMD support (at CMD, type ReIcon /? for help)
– Align icons to Grid – this allows you to snap your desktop icons to a grid, similar to Windows’ Auto-Arrange feature)
How To Use It:
Extract the ZIP to any folder and then run the program. Click the “Save Icon Layout” button to save the current desktop layout. You will then see the “New Icon Position” name, resolution and icon number in the list of saved layouts. To restore a saved layout, select the layout from the list and then click the “Restore Icon Layout” button.
You can also right-click the saved layout and choose “Restore” from the context menu. Yet another way is to double-click any saved layout in the list to quickly restore that layout. To delete a saved layout, either select the one you wish to remove and click the Delete button, or right click it and select Delete from the context menu.
You can add “Save/Restore icon layout” to your Desktop or My Computer right-click menu. To do so, click the Options menu and then to ‘Add Context Menu‘ , choose an appropriate option. To remove them, go to the same location, and choose “Uninstall All”.
To add only the Restore option to the context menu, select it first, then select ‘Desktop’ and/or ‘My Computer’ to apply to that menu. Clicking the “Add Only Restore Option” and/or “Use Shift Key to Display” will not create context menu entries, only sub-menus. And the result :
If you wish, you can right click the ReIcon Application system tray icon and restore any Icon layout
Note 1: In ReIcon’s Options menu, if “Disable Auto-Arrange” is NOT selected (by default, it is), and the Windows desktop context menu entry ‘View –> Auto-Arrange Icons’ IS selected, then ReIcon’s ‘Restore Icon Layout’ feature may not work properly. To Stop Desktop Icons From Changing Positions after log in , restart or refresh please Untick “Auto Arrange icons” feature.
Note 2: If you have multiple monitors and these monitors have separate icon structures, after saving Icon positions layouts , Desktop context menu auto align to grid feature must not be marked, because after the restore , it causes the icons on the closed monitor to appear on the active desktop. In addition, Align Icons To Grid feature shouldn’t be selected in the program settings (under disable auto Arrange)
Add ReIcon shortcut to the Windows Startup Folder (for Autostart)
To enable ReIcon to load at Windows startup, click the Edit menu, then choose ‘Add a shortcut to Startup Folder’. If you wish to remove this later, go to Edit, then choose ‘Delete Shortcut from Startup Folder’
How to change Icon layout order On GUI
In this new version of the ReIcon you can change saved Icon layout order via drag and drop
ReIcon has CMD (command line) support. The options for this are shown below:
How to backup with ID: You can use this command to overwrite an existing profile (if it already exists)
ReIcon_x64.exe /s /ID id , for example :
ReIcon_x64.exe /s /ID elq
How to restore any backup with ID:
ReIcon_x64.exe /r /ID id , for example :
ReIcon_x64.exe /r /ID elq
How to define the save path with parameter and ID (You can use any extension)
ReIcon_x64.exe /S /File D:\ID , for example :
ReIcon_x64.exe /S /File D:\abc.ini
Restore with path:
ReIcon_x64.exe /R /File D:\ID , for example :
ReIcon_x64.exe /R /File D:\abc.ini
Supported operating systems: Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Windows Vista , Windows xp – (both x86 and x64)
Supported languages: English , Turkish , German , French , Polish , Hungarian , Russian , Chinese (Simplified) , Korean , Swedish , Portuguese (Brazilian) , Czech , Japanese , Spanish , Dutch (Nederlands) , Romanian , Italian , Greek , Hebrew , Lithuanian , Slovak , Vietnamese
File: ReIcon_x64.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 62700051f1a1c4a1966e5846d9c9ed5e
SHA1: e3971fe436aaff003cff256c4fac0b7f9542e4dd
File: ReIcon.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 8b2d8253bb151c8204ee257552d5ccaa
SHA1: efdffc5b9d89abd02fcbae201e001bd5f619bff8
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Idea: Please show in ReIcon 2.0 text file, how to quickly upgrade to 2.0 from an earlier version of ReIcon — say for example 1.7 — so that the Update to version 2.0 goes smoothly for the users that are used to the older versions and how they worked, and what’s new in Version 2 would make more sense.
Perfect.
Hi , Noted it down , Thanks
Good program! Is it posible to add some funcionalities similar to DeskLock (Web Link …), like: lock desktop icons, run in "stealth" mode (so that user can’t change or exit program), maybe even password option?
Hi, If you use more than one monitor, the Align icons to grid option in the Desktop view settings should be unchecked.Otherwise all icons will be automatically positioned on the active desktop by explorer.
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Please, Uncheck Aling icon to grid and try again.
Hi. Dealing with this utility is driving me crazy, mainly because I’ve got an overwhelming number of icons/shortcuts cluttering my desktop (we’re talking hundreds here). Normally, this isn’t an issue but becomes one when switching from my office monitor to laptop only screen. The icons/shortcuts are created by both Windows automatically and me for browser URL shortcuts, notepad files, and more.
When I attempt to switch layouts with Reicon after creating a saved layout called "laptop’, it messes up the placement of not just icons but also my carefully arranged shortcuts. It actually doesn’t remove the existing shortcuts/icons.
What I did was I organized non-essential icons and shortcuts into a "work" desktop folder. All the remaining icons/shortcuts are saved in a layout called "laptop,"
Every time I restore either of the two layouts it’s like a tornado hit my desktop. Icons and shortcuts end up everywhere, and I have to align them and start the process again.
Furthermore, should I pull up ‘restore" a layout that has, say, 4 icons, but the actual desktop has 128 icons, it again causes icons/shortcuts to be all over the place.The utility still keeps the 128 icons on the screen but in a disarray.
Do you happen to have a step-by-step guide on taming Reicon with a myriad of icons/shortcuts on Windows 11 Pro, especially when switching between a monitor and a laptop screen? If you respond to emails, I’ll gladly copy and paste my request and sent it to you that way.
Hi , We have noted it down
Thanks.
Dear Team at Sordum,
I was thinking that a very similar application would be handy for the System Tray. That is the possibility to save the position of the icons in it.
I have to say that I never felt the need for this before, but in a new laptop I have, with Windows 10 Pro, what happens is that their order keeps constantly changing according to which task finishes loading at startup first, so I have every time to look for some of them at each reboot and place them where I need.
What would be useful is to make sure that such utility would load last (I would place a delay manually on the task scheduler if needed) so that it could automatically restore where desired the icons’ position of the other previous tasks.
This would be even more useful of the previous request, being that it would intervene at every boot. Just an idea.
Thank you again!
Hi , We have noted your request and thank you for your comment.
Dear Team at Sordum,
I would like to make a request for a new application similar to this one.
One that would save the order of the icons in the ‘Quick Launch’ toolbar.
In fact some installation programs create an icon in the Quick Launch toolbar and after that they *sort* all of them destroying the order set by the user.
As a secondary request, and only if it’s not too much work, it would be nice to have the possibility to sorting only those icons in the Quick Launch that do not appear in the taskbar.
What I mean is that if the TaskBar is on the bottom of the screen, then some appears listed horizontally (and I would like to have them not sorted) and the remaining ones appears vertically if I press the ‘>>’ small button (and these are the icons that I would like to be able to sort).
Thank you for all the beautiful utilities you make, very useful.
Hi, It may be under a different icon or positioned outside the visible desktop.
Select View -> Align icon to Grid in the desktop right button menu.
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Hi! I saved an icon organization, then I created a document and put it in the place of an icon. When I restored the icon organization, the document disappeared from the desktop. It can be seen in the file explorer, but not in the desktop. What can I do to make the document visible on the desktop?
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ReIcon v2.0
After restoring the icon positions, if you refresh the desktop, they will be restored to their original appearance…
Thank You
Hi , Reicon does not backup shortcuts or files on the desktop. It only backs up the location of objects (files etc.) on the desktop. If you delete a shortcut etc. on the desktop after backing up with Reicon, this shortcut will not be created after the Reicon restore process.In the next update we may add an option for backing up shortcuts.
Note : We doesn’t support Defender Control any more It’s been over 1 year since we closed comments
@Sordum I’d appreciate it if you could take a moment to carefully review my message, again.
As I previously mentioned, this issue also arises following a fresh Windows installation, when the shortcuts (icons) are relocated from a previously saved and backed-up folder, such as Dropbox or Google Drive.
The issue I have experienced happens ALL the time, and it doesn’t require any manual intervention like pressing F5.
Even when I’ve attempted to refresh (F5), it still doesn’t resolve the problem. Based on my observations, it appears to be an inherent issue with your application.
You yourself acknowledged that you intend to address this problem in an upcoming update. However, it can come across as if you’ve abandoned the effort and are dismissing users’ concerns when they report that Defender Control has caused problems in their Windows system.
There’s nothing more frustrating than making a statement and then retracting it or acting as if it was never said. This is not a constructive approach to thinking, behaving, and responding. This is just my perspective.