Windows Reshuffling Desktop Icons

[wazawak]

Windows keeps reordering my desktop icons, for example moving the "my computers" shortcut in with the rest of the shortcuts, instead of where i leave it (at the top of the desktop). Is there a way to disable this?

 

[smarteyeball]

r-click on the desktop > View and untick Auto arrange icons

 

[wazawak]

The problem with that is my icons no longer fall into a neat grid arrangement- they hover exactly where I left them. I'm trying to get the same desktop arrangement that I had in XP, with My Computer, Recycle Bin, and Firefox leading on the top so they're easy to reach.

 

[Arc]

Right click on the Desktop > View > Align to Grid .


Probably it is unchecked there . Check it now .... icons will stop placing wherever .