Desktop Icons Can't Be Moved - Unlike Any Other Icon Thread I've Seen

You don't happen to have "click-lock" enabled in your mouse properties do you?

I want to thank everyone for their input and suggestions. Rep given as earned by you all.

AS I said, I could grap things really quickly and kind of "flick" them around the screen. I would flick something, then try to move it again, and it would go back to the corner. Then I wondered if I could flick something, then grab that same thing, and flick it again. As it turned out, I could. This problem, which has been going for a couple days now and cost me hours of time sitting and trying to fix it, is SO RIDICULOUS, that I started "flicking" my Homegroup icon around the screen in a sort of Micro-Tantrum just to vent my frustration. After about 5 flicks, the whole screen did a little flicker and I thought maybe I had made it even more angry with me. Instead of being angry, everything is now working fine, the way it always has. I even restarted again just to see if my "fix" would go away. Nope. I can move things around like normal once again.

I am going to give this a 'top of my lungs' WTF???? and just hope it doesn't come back

THanks again for the help, that was awesome. I was shocked to get replies so quickly! Anyway, I will keep an eye on what it does here for a while, and I will report back in if either it happens again, or I figure outh just WTF it was that happened.

Many thanks!

-Tim

Perhaps it's a Pinball Easter Egg...

Qdos said:

You don't happen to have "click-lock" enabled in your mouse properties do you?

Just to answer, no, I had checked that but forgot to mention it. No, it's a mystery... Thanks!

Odlly enough, it started after the last Windows update. After looking around for hours today, since nobody else was complaining, I figured it couldn't be related. I don't think I had anything else update at that time.

I guess I am going to have to call it solved. I have restarted a couple times, moved things around and for whatever reason, my "Flicking" seems to have kicked it back into normal function. If it flares up again, which I have a feeling it will, I will try messing with the mouse first thing. During one of the attempts I made to fix it, the mouse DID act up, so you might be on to something.

Thanks!