Freeze Desktop

[blockie]

Is there a way to freeze the icons on the desktop so that they are not moved all to the left side of the screen upon a reboot after a power button shutdown?

 

[Dinesh]

Right click on desktop>View>Uncheck Auto Arrange Icons.

 

[blockie]

That doesn't prevent them from rearranging on a bad shutdown. I mean a shutdown where I have to hold the power off button for 5 seconds. I shut down this way sometimes because the Windows Explore becomes "not responding" and there is no other way to reboot.

 

[Dinesh]

When windows explorer stops responding, just open task manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc. Then go to Processes tab and kill explorer.exe. Then click on File>new Task(Run) and type explorer and press Enter. You will get your explorer.exe back.