Desktop Icons Moving

[smarteyeball]

I unchecked anlign to grid which solved the problem for, auto arrange is also unchecked

Does not always work.

I have Auto arrange and Align to grid disabled, yet Align to grid is always re-selected after each restart.

Which results in the damn icons always moving...

 

[kensiko]

Has this been said?

Desktop restore, http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

 

[smarteyeball]

Has this been said?

Desktop restore, http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

Not sure mate. It's worth a try for others though.

I use Ultramon 3.0.9 which ostensibly has a save/restore icon function, but it's not particularly effective in restoring what I consider the 'saved' position.

 

[kensiko]

Has this been said?

Desktop restore, http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

Not sure mate. It's worth a try for others though.

I use Ultramon 3.0.9 which ostensibly has a save/restore icon function, but it's not particularly effective in restoring what I consider the 'saved' position.

I've seen many icon position saving software (like Ultramon), Desktop restore is simply the best.

 

[Rose1]

My desktop medium icons doesn't go down towards above the taskbar. How can I make it go down towards above the taskbar?

 

[Jacee]

Can you drag them down?

 

[Rose1]

Can you drag them down?

Not all the way down toward the taskbar with medium size.

 

[s76brx]

make sure auto arrange is not checked. Align to grid can be either way it doesn't matter. Move the icons where you want them and then CLICK REFRESH!! I'm not yelling. I just want the answer to stand out.

 

[hipster666]

I have exactly the same problem. Only started happening recently and now it happens every time I reboot my machine. Just a point of interest, if you have your desktop in slideshow mode you ARE using a Theme as you have to have a Theme active to allow the slideshow to work. I'm guessing, like me, you just have a blank Theme selected that you've then tailored to your own flavour so you don't end up with some bland MS Theme?

An odd symptom of this I've come across today is that I send a lot of photos to friends using my home PC and tend to drop them on my desktop from my camera, before sending and either filing or deleting, however with the batch I had this morning it kept saying files with the same filename were on my desktop (camera starts at the last stored filename +1) which wasn't the case, I had nothing on my desktop with the filename on it, so wondering if there are hidden files or corruption happening on the desktop that has sparked this all off?

 

[thor388]

I have found out why my icons were moving and web pages opening when no one was using the PC
click this link you wont believe your eyes.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uFAfn8SIm6c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

or Even a Fly can use a PC with a Touch Screen monitor. - YouTube

 

[kensiko]

Well, what is the solution then ?

 

[BlueMonster]

I have the very same issue with Win 7 Ulta. Has anyone figured this out??

Blue

 

[stevieray]

s76brx had the answer upthread. Just put your icons where you want them to be, then right-click on an empty space on the desktop to bring up the context menu, and select "refresh". That's all it takes.

 

[murph3000]

Moving icon problem solved for me

This has been a pernicious problem since Windows 7 came out, but I found a solution that works for me. The problem seemed to be restricted to Microsoft Office files (.doc, .xls, .pps, etc.), but the solution might work for other file types as well. I simply moved the actual document to a different folder than the desktop and placed a shortcut to it on the desktop. Now no matter what I do -- modify the document, reboot to PC, or whatever -- the document stays on the desktop at the position where I want it.

 

[anpease]

I did not have this problem until 2 days ago. I have read numerous forums with various solutions and so far none of them have worked for me.
Auto arrange,align to grid,sort by and allow themes to change desktop icons are all unticked.
But when I re-boot they have all moved again (recycle bin always goes back to top left, I prefer it bottom right).
I have tried re-arranging them and then when I click on refresh they all move again.
I downloaded Desktop Restore which allows me to save them, I then have to click on restore every time I re-boot.
I know it's nothing major, but it is so annoying as it has been okay for the last year or so.
It even does it now without re-booting. I can go into explorer looking at various folders and when I return to the desktop they have moved again.

 

[kensiko]

maybe desktop restore support command line, you could run the command line at startup