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Despite its imaginative pedigree, the film is primarily remembered as a massive financial failure. Monkeybone (2001) - Swampflix

For those who typed the keyword into a search engine, you aren’t just looking for a movie; you are looking for a time capsule of creative excess, a fever dream starring Brendan Fraser at his physical peak, and a dark cartoon that asked, "What if Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a panic attack?" monkeybone.2001

While it may not have been the commercial success 20th Century Fox hoped for, Monkeybone remains a vital piece of 2000s cinema for those who appreciate the weird, the wired, and the wonderfully animated. Despite its imaginative pedigree, the film is primarily

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I wrote this program after severe frustration of having my layout trashed every time I switched screen resolutions.  Sometimes other programs will switch screen size and trash your layout as well.  This program is an answer to this problem, and I thought other people might find it useful too.

TIP: Even with Desktop restore installed, does Windows seem to scramble your icons now every time you reboot, or press F5 to refresh?  If so, after you restore your icons the way you want them, manually move one icon a space or two over and then move it back.  After that Windows should remember their placement for a much longer time.

Programming:  I have some notes regarding the techniques behind coding Desktop Restore [Updated: 01/10/20].

Contact: Please direct all requests, bug reports and comments to the Desktop Restore area of the MIDI-OX Forum.

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This tiny application operates as a Shell extension.  It records the layout and positions of icons and programs on the Windows Desktop, and permits restoration of the layout.  It appears to operate correctly under Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.