The desktop icons fly over left after resetting my computer.

Hello

I just had a question. It is not a big deal, just a pain. When I restart my computer all the icons that I moved to the upper-left corner of my screen (hobby icons and links to video games and applications) are all moved to the left of the screen with the computer/network/trash icons. I have to move every time I reset my machine. I made sure that the reorganization is off. I even turned on and then off it again.

I am running windows 7 that came with my dell. He started just do it after I made a backup of my computer.

Is this a common problem? How should I do? As I said, this isn't a huge problem, just a pain to move all icons back just to reset on me when windows updates or I turned off my computer at night.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you

Louie

Hello

I just had a question. It is not a big deal, just a pain. When I restart my computer all the icons that I moved to the upper-left corner of my screen (hobby icons and links to video games and applications) are all moved to the left of the screen with the computer/network/trash icons. I have to move every time I reset my machine. I made sure that the reorganization is off. I even turned on and then off it again.

I am running windows 7 that came with my dell. He started just do it after I made a backup of my computer.

Is this a common problem? How should I do? As I said, this isn't a huge problem, just a pain to move all icons back just to reset on me when windows updates or I turned off my computer at night.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you

Louie

Hi Louie

It is a known problem with some systems.

If you have a 32-bit system, you might want to try the following fix.

You can save custom desktop icon position and restore it if necessary, using the Layout.dll of Microsoft shell extension.  Save and restore available to the icon on the desktop in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

Kind regards

Thank you for using Windows 7

Ronnie Vernon MVP

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