Right-click desktop, click View, and uncheck Auto arrange icons.
Ramesh Srinivasan | The Winhelponline Blog
Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience
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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Anonymous
2014-06-12T20:02:03+00:00 Thanks for the tip. It fixed my problem. Go figure?
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Anonymous
2014-06-18T19:38:28+00:00 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 ?
If the Right click -> View -> Auto arrange icons did not work you can do the following:
Right click the taskbar. Then click on "Task Manager"
When the task manager window have come up find explorer or windows explorer.
When you have found it you need to rightclick explorer and click on end task. After you have ended it you will notice the taskbar and more stuff is gone.
In Task Manager you need to click on File -> Run new task. Then write "explorer.exe" and click "Ok".
Hope it helps :)
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Anonymous
2014-06-25T16:52:31+00:00 it was also my mouse, the mouse wheel button was stuck.
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Anonymous
2014-09-22T23:20:39+00:00 Cheers Ramesh!