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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...
Do Windows programs run on LinuxMint? It's nice to have desktop icons that don't scramble themselves, but I kind of lose a lot of programs switching to Linux...
This is definitely not answered, in fact most answers I get from the "Certified" guys are not a solution.
This same thing happens to me whenever I ................................
As a frustrated laptop user who uses multiple configurations, it is the single most difficult thing I do with the laptop, and causes me too much time and aggravation so I've just removed most icons from my desktop. It now includes four which I don't have in the Start menu or taskbar or quicklaunch, so I'm not sure what the point of the desktop is at this point except to have a pretty background thanks to Microsoft.
Microsoft do it to annoy their once formerly loyal customers?
Since moving one i7 3D laptop to LinuxMint 17 (x64), the Icons on the desktop have never moved a millimeter; and the whole laptop (built for Windows 7) works far better, and far more reliable on than than it does/did with Windows 8.1 on it. But then again, LinuxMint 17 (with a five year technical update path) is completely free: and so is all the amazing software you can get for it thats free also.
Well, Dude,
I too had this problem. But, don't think this problem is permanent. You definitely have registry issues in your laptop. I recommend you to try the free software 'Rogue Killer'. Its amazing. I was searching all over the net for 6 months, but to no avail. This was the cure to what seemed to be an eternal problem! Try this and reply, if it worked. Just scan and fix the errors. Cool.
May all your problems be sorted out!
