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
    2011-05-27T19:13:52+00:00

    I hope this doesn't get posted twice but the first attempt hasn't appeared yet. I unchecked all of the non-Microsoft services in msconfig and restarted. All the icons stayed put. Thanks very much.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-05-27T19:09:27+00:00

    This worked for me. I unchecked the 4 non-Microsoft "services" in msconfig and restarted. The icons stayed put. I didn't recognize any of those so called services anyway. Thanks very much!

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-13T17:05:48+00:00

    I'm using Microsoft's Security Essentials on 64 bit Windows 7 and my icons still shuffle with each re-boot, so I say coincidence.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-03-16T19:00:00+00:00

    Thanx HGN-1 :-)

    I tried all the other solutions... but right clicking and selecting Refresh was the one that worked for me!

    Thanx!

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