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
    2011-07-21T03:39:45+00:00

    You may have something there. I'll go into the registry but not clean boot. There is too much there that I don't touch just out of ignorance. The first time I went there I had to take the computer in for service-$40 worth, so forgive me if I'm gun-shy.

    Tangentially, I just copied your quote. It's priceless, but you would have to know me to know why.

    I'll check your link, just in case.

    Dave "KAHUNA" Binko

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-07-21T03:26:43+00:00

    Interesting. I switched fro Avast to Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ a few days ago and the exact opposite happened to me. That's why I'm here. I'm surprised how many replies there are on this thread

    Dave "KAHUNA" Binko

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-06-29T10:01:03+00:00

    Yes worked for me too, and has done so for months without fail.  Actually I thought I found this answer in another thread.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-06-29T08:40:31+00:00

    After arranging your icons, right-click the desktop and click 'Refresh'. That'll lock the current icons in place. [F5 also works if the desktop is the active window.]

    Caveat: If you change a document with MS office it'll delete the old icon and generate a new one. I use OpenOffice which seems to leave the icons intact.

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