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How do I stop renamed files from moving to upper left corner
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A few months ago I switched to a new laptop, then immediately downloaded windows upgrade on it, so I don't know which factor causes this. But ever since, every time I rename a file on the desktop, windows immediately moves the file to the upper left corner of the screen, or the nearest open space to this point. This is confusing when I'm trying to keep track of and arrange my desktop files in some other way, and I have to keep moving the file back to where I want it.
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Anonymous
2023-05-29T20:19:22+00:00 Same issue, everythings checks out, multiple monitors, 4k resolution, high end machine, renaming on desktop, folders don't move, files do.
I honest give up.
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Anonymous
2023-05-26T02:44:24+00:00 Been trying to fix this issue since I installed W11 yesterday.
I found if I rename a file using the command line (ren file1.txt newname.txt) the file is permanently fixed and won't move when I rename it normally. I can copy the file and that file will be fixed as well.
I'm not sure what the command line rename is doing different than right click rename, but hoping someone smarter than figures it out soon
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Les Ferch 10,361 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2023-05-23T01:18:31+00:00 This does not work
Yeah, that's well established.
The real issue appears to be with 4K (or higher) monitors. I'm not sure if it's all or just some monitors that are affected. My guess is that it's not all and it has to do with the drivers, so a display driver update may help.
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Anonymous
2023-05-23T01:10:22+00:00 This does not work