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Every few days, all the icons on my Win7 desktop rearrange themselves. Usually they move to the left edge of the screen. I laboriously move all the icons back to where I like them, and 3-10 days later, they all shift left again. I've found no pattern or event that might cause this -- but it's very annoying!
I've got Win7 build 7100 running on a Dell Latitude D830 laptop. Totally standard hardware and very little non-Microsoft software. In short, it's a pretty clean system.
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To supplement Reyas.M.I.'s answer, Under View is the option to select the icon size, Auto arrange icons and Align icons to grid. The Sort by option includes Name, Size, Item type and Date modified. I suggest you check both View and Sort by.
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Check whether "Auto Arrange" checked. To check this, right click on desktop and select "Arrange icons by".
I hope this helps.
Thanks and Regards, Reyas...
Use "arrange to grid" to arrange the icons neatly/symmetrically, then uncheck "arrange to grid". I have some games that use a different resolution than the native desktop, and the icons would be "rearranged" after using them. This solved the problem for me so far (fingers crossed).
Nope, Windows just created a new Desktop entry.
Greg A: I use my laptop as a laptop, then switch to a big screen monitor, so it gets moved about regularly. So it has to handle different screen resolutions. The icons get moved about all the time.
So I use Iconoid from SillySot Software. It has worked for me every time. Any time I change the screen layout, I start Iconoid and store the positions. Then if they get mis-configured, Iconoid is my friend. Iconoid is a little quirky, for example, the Save/Restore positions is on the third tab, but otherwise it does the job.
