{"id":15583,"date":"2009-12-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/12\/22\/no-you-cant-lock-icons-to-the-users-desktop\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T07:00:00","slug":"no-you-cant-lock-icons-to-the-users-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091222-00\/?p=15583","title":{"rendered":"No, you can&#039;t lock icons to the user&#039;s desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/01\/922449.aspx\"> I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature<\/a>, I submit this question for your consideration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> My customer wants to know how to lock a specific icon to the upper left hand corner of the desktop. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> This company must be writing the most awesome program to end all programs, a program so amazingly awesome that it should appear as the very first thing on the desktop so you won&#8217;t forget how awesome it is.\n I think their users may disagree with that assessment.<\/p>\n<p> And the answer is, no, there is no supported way to force a particular icon to appear at a particular desktop position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another installment of I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature, I submit this question for your consideration. My customer wants to know how to lock a specific icon to the upper left hand corner of the desktop. This company must be writing the most awesome program to end all programs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-15583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In another installment of I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature, I submit this question for your consideration. My customer wants to know how to lock a specific icon to the upper left hand corner of the desktop. This company must be writing the most awesome program to end all programs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}