Windows 7 desktop icon's keep moving

Anonymous
2009-10-24T13:28:57+00:00

Hi there, I have re-arranged my desktop and moved the task bar to the left side of the screen. Therefore I have moved my desktop icons and my gadgets over to the right side of the screen and lined them up in order to what they are, (ie: MS Office icons in one row, excel files I use on a regular basis, Adobe program and so-on and so-on). Everytime I re-boot my PC about 2/3rds of the icons keep moving back over to the left side of the screen and arrange from top to bottom.

I have checked and un-checked align icons by grid and it makes no difference.

I didn't have this issue in VISTA but when I installed Windows 7 I have this issue.

Any suggestions here on how I can stop the icons from moving??

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Anonymous
2009-11-08T14:51:55+00:00

Had the same problem. Please go to this link, there are separate programs for 32 & 64 bit Windows (I have 64 bit, that works fine, cannot know about the 32 bit, but....):

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout-in-windows-vista/

Al;though designed for Vista, it is fine with Windows 7 Ultimate. Might do for XP, haven't needed to use it there.

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-11-04T14:43:16+00:00

    This has been an issue since RC. Both auto arrange and align are off in my case also and i arrange my desktop then upon reboot many of the icons have moved.

    I would really appreciate if MS could get a solution out on this and the fact that IE8 goes belly up twice a day.

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-10-24T15:49:21+00:00

    Did that already, they still want to move after each re-boot.

    I have both autoarrange and align icons by grid unchecked.

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-10-24T15:17:17+00:00

    check autoarrange, and then uncheck it. This removes the check from whatever sort you have set now.

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