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

Anonymous
2010-08-17T01:53:34+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 ?

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Ramesh 181.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2010-08-17T04:46:39+00:00

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

Ramesh Srinivasan | The Winhelponline Blog

Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-13T23:22:05+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."

    Thank you. That fixed it. So weird :/

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-16T23:46:35+00:00

    Thank you so much!

    i have had this problem for ever!!

    Thanks again :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-19T16:56:42+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.

    Great! It worked for me too, auto arrange was uncheked.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-22T16:48:51+00:00

    @dazmoriarty

    Ditto on issue and stinginess

    BTW, Fences 2 works just fine with 8.1

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