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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I created a script to restore my icons (for the current setup) accoding to how I last saved.
However each time I update the configuration, a new ID is generated and I have to chang emy script.
Could you create an “Update” function in the right click, so the config updates but the ID stays the same? That would be perfect!
There are two files with Reicon.exe 1. .Reicon.ini (stores Languages) 2. IconLayouts.ini (stores icon positions)
they must stay together , but why don’t you move all of them in another location for example in your D partition and right click Reicon.exe > send to > Desktop (Create a shortcut) after that in your desktop will remain only one Reicon file (Reicon.exe)
With the ReIcon icon on the desktop there are two Notepad files (presumably storing location data) is it possible to move these to another folder?
Seemed ok for a while Windows 8.1 x64 Undate 1. But yesterday I had run Malwarebyte and deleted any files in Quarantine. Upon cold boot, my icons had shifted one level so bottom ones were stuck up top. None of the saves restored to what they were. Ditto for the DesktopOK64 program so maybe not just Recln. Oh well. Likely some key got deleted in registery.
Not in a position to do a Recovery since might lose an installed program or two. Just advise doing those quick Create Recovery savings every other day or so. That’s only true way to regain destop icon placements. This has been a longstanding issue with all prior Windows.
Perfect! I like this tool 🙂
After a restore, if I press an F5 (Refresh) on the desktop then the icons lose their positions again.
It is possible but our mission is ; simplify Pc usage for ordinary users , if we add such a function , ordinary users will never use it
umm.. i rarely reboot..
Doing it on startup does not solve the problem of USB and NAS and other mapped drive icon locations changing on every WAKEUP.
relcon /R needs to be run after usb drives detected and networks drives reconnect.
Is this possible?
We have not tested it on such a network
Will this work on multi-user systems? I guess the question is, does it save the layout in a user-specific place or in a machine-specific place?
I’d like to use this on a terminal server / Citrix XenApp 6.5 server (WSVR 2008R2). Any idea if it will work properly?
What kind of Question is that? we are the developer not Major Geeks ,you should ask this question others not us
I can not get proper hash values from download from Major Geeks. Are those on your site correct?
Solution 1 : a) save your icon Layout b) right click it and choose create shortcut c) copy the shortcut into the startup folder.
Solution 2 : Reicon has cmd support (ReIcon /?) ,it mean you can automatically run a “Restore Icon Layout” when the user logs on , Parameter for x86 : ReIcon.exe /R , Parameter for x64 : ReIcon_x64.exe /R , You can easily Automate the process; download the following .zip file
https://www.sordum.org/dns_jumper/ReIcon/reicon_autostart.zip
and copy it in the Reicon folder , extract it then use appropriate .vbs script (depends on your system x86 or x64) it will automatically copy Reicon.exe to C:\ , create a .bat file and copy it to Startup folder or you can do it manually , just crate a .bat file include One of the above parameters and copy it’s shortcut into startup folder.
I wish to reiterate Sambo’s request: Can you automatically run a “Restore Icon Layout” when the user logs on? It would save another manual step for many systems and many users.
Ok. I’ve found how.
C:\ProgramData\ReIcon
How to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3?
I’ve uninstalled context menus using 1.2, then I’ve imported layout using 1.3, installed context menus again, but Launch Reicon still lauches Reicon 1.2.
Finally…one that works…and works well with Win 8.1.
This is the 3rd utility of this type that I’ve tried, but the 1st that works. Much thanks.