Windows 7: icons moving on desktop

windows 7 frequently moves my icons around in a haphazard fashion so that I never know where anythinig is.
Is there a way to stop this?

Welcome!

Make sure it is not set to auto arrange.

Yep, as Mr. King says - you may have your desktop icons set to automatically arrange. If they are automatically arranged, they have been stacked in the upper-left corner and locked in placed.
To unlock the icons so that you can move them again, clear the check mark next to Auto arrange icons (as King has showed you) and you should have full management of your icons.

Let us know what happens.

Cheers,
Cassandra
Microsoft Windows Outreach

Thanks for the replies.
I should have mentioned that autoarrange is not checked.
A thought! Possibly this was not happening before I installed the windows security program.

Hello guybc, welcome to Seven Forums!


If you're referring to "MS Security Essentials" at the link below, I don't believe it could have anything to do with moving icons around on the desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

also you might want to uncheck Arrange Icons to Grid.

If that doesn't work, I found this thing that works wonders. It's a work around but works nonetheless.

MIDIOX


I got this from this thread btw originally.

Desktop Icons Moving

Many thanks!
Midiox has fixed the problem.
This is a very valuable site.

Hello guybc.



We're glad you found a solution that worked for you; thanks for the update!

Totally awesome! Kudos to this site for posting it.