unable to move icons around screen

[janscrivens]

Hello, first timer here so hope I do it right.
Can anyone tell me how to move icons around the screen. In XP you could choose to line them up automatically or move them yourself. In 7 I cannot move them myself. Any help welcome.

 

[richc46]

Do you mean that they do not move at all

or

You move them then they go back?

If the second, right click on desktop. Then sort by, then uncheck everything.

 

[janscrivens]

Thanks for the reply. I mean they just go back again. I keep them in a folder in my documents and like to sort them MY way. I guess I could just rename them but in XP could move them easily. I did what you suggested on desktop but there was nothing ticked anyway. When I right click in the pics page, whatever I click as a choice, it also changes to 'descending'.

 

[richc46]

Go to the pics page, right click. Make sure sort by and arrange by are in agreement.

 

[janscrivens]

Thanks for reply. Don't have 'arranged by', but have synchronised 'sort by' and 'group by'. Both have 'date' and 'ascending' ticked. They will stay like that until I add other pictures to that folder. Then if I again click on 'sort by date' to merge the new ones in with the old ones, they will automatically go 'descending'.

 

[richc46]

Little by little, I get information. What did you put on your computer for the pictures? I have Windows 7 and it does not have syncronized by.

Have you dowloaded something that is suppose to make photos better than what 7 offers?

 

[janscrivens]

Hi again. No I have not added anything to windows 7. When I said synchronized I just meant I had set them both to exactly the same things to put them in agreement as you suggested. Eventually I may get round to using a better system for my pics, but for now they are just in files in explorer. I have this same problem with any files not just pics. It doesn't happen if I choose to sort by name, only for date!

 

[richc46]

Lets see if somthing is corrupt
Do this
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

 

[janscrivens]

Thanks.
I have run scan and here are results.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

C:\Windows\system32>

All I want to do is 'click & drag'!

I have posted another 'thread' for another problem, (when sorting pictures they automatically go in descending order) could they be related?

 

[pjd]

@janscrivens - right click desktop and select View - see attachment.

I have things in the context menu that you probably wont have, but you should have View

pjd

 

[janscrivens]

this didn't help but thanks for trying! doesn't this just affect the desktop? it's the folders i need to change I think. jan

 

[pjd]

sorry I didn't even know you could move things around arbitrarily in XP folders as you've described, probably because I mainly work in details view.

pjd

 

[boohbah]

excuse me if i misunderstand but are you trying to move files around in a folder and they wont stay in the order you want
If so then there is a tutorial HERE to help

 

[janscrivens]

Thanks. I was about to follow these instructions but decided to create a system restore point first. Now I seem to have lost the ability to create a restore point although there are some which have been made automatically! What do I do now please? Jan

 

[richc46]

Did you follow these instructions?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/67114-system-restore-point-create-system-startup.html?ltr=S

 

[janscrivens]

done that and it worked. think I've forgotten what the original problem was now? Going to try the tutorial you mentioned now. Thanks