Can't move shortcut icons on my desktop to different locations on the desktop

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I cannot move my desktop shortcut icons around on my desktop. Think it has something to do with the auto-allign feature - how do I fix this ?

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Ramesh 181.2K Volunteer Moderator

Right-click desktop, click View, and uncheck Auto arrange icons.

Ramesh Srinivasan | The Winhelponline Blog

Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience

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Anonymous

2013-10-19T11:39:27+00:00

great it works ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i was also facing same problem auto arrange was un check but i hit esc several times it works ;-))) cheers
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Anonymous

2013-10-15T12:17:27+00:00

I was having exactly the same problem; on the desktop I ended up hitting escape a few times and I was able to move my icons again.

As a note this was occurring everywhere in Explorer as I couldn't move icons from one folder to another either.

Awesome! I wonder what could be the cause of this icon freezing...
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Anonymous

2013-07-19T19:12:32+00:00

I couldn't move icons or drag anything in folders. Hitting the ESC key a few times worked for me. What a weird problem.
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Anonymous

2013-06-29T20:25:20+00:00

I was having exactly the same problem; on the desktop I ended up hitting escape a few times and I was able to move my icons again.

As a note this was occurring everywhere in Explorer as I couldn't move icons from one folder to another either.

This worked even on the despicable Windows 8.
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