The desktop icons is always moving around

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• Windows 7 pro 64. The desktop icons won't stay where I put them. After a reboot, the desktop icons are always rearranged.

  I've set up my office while I have the following icons down the left side of the top in the following order: computer, network, System (C), (D) options, reader of DVD (E), trash.

  Whenever I restart my computer, the icons are rearranged as: computer, network, trash, reader of DVD (E), options (D), System (C).

  I don't want to add all the new icons on the desktop, because I know they won't stay where I put them. When I was using XP it would happen only when I changed resolution but with Win 7, it happens every time that I reboot.

  Reorganization of auto desk is off, snap to grid is turned off, sort by has verified. I use two monitors. All the gadgets that I have in my hand right 2ndary monitor are stay in place very well. The icons gives me the problem are on the left side of the left main screen.

  I made an image of my hard drive just after the installation of windows 7 and before to install the drivers of manufacturers and updates of windows.

  Today, I restored this image, reinstalled the drivers from manufacturers and made the updates of windows. The problem seems to have disappeared now.

  I am re-imaging my hard drive after you install the complete driver/updating. I hope I don't need to use it, but I will if I have to. I still don't know what caused it in the first place, but at least now I have an option of fast food if it happens again. I'll recreate the image on the hard drive after all major software install from that time, I have two images. A fundamental right after pilot installations and one after each installation of software.

• How to lock the desktop icons in a multiple monitor configuration

  Original title: lock the desktop icons - and display

  Working with Windows 7 Home Premium has a problem processing 2 pieces: no matter how many times I said I want the display screen appears on the monitor, the screen of the computer, every day he arbitrarily returns to the computer screen only. That creates the 2nd problem: the desktop icons that I have arranged for the largest monitor rearrange themselves to adapt to the computer screen. Is there a way I can lock the icons in this position that I used to be able to do? Or is it possible that I can keep the display to go back to the computer screen? (I'm careful to apply the instructions to display before the specified seconds elapse).

   

  Hello

  I suggest you to go through the steps mentioned in the link and the Coachman.

  On a system running Microsoft Windows 7, the desktop icons can be moved to positions at random during another monitor main screen.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2001334/

  See also:

  Move windows between multiple monitors

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/move-Windows-between-multiple-monitors

  Work and play better with multiple monitors

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/work-and-play-better-with-multiple-monitors

  Setting up dual monitor: two screens are better than one

  http://www.Microsoft.com/athome/organization/twomonitors.aspx

• The desktop icons have all disappeared, moved to the taskbar.

  My desktop icons have disappeared.  I tried to do a right click on the desktop, but nothing happens, no pop - up menu or anything like that.  The desktop items have been moved to the taskbar background, so I have access to all my icons, but I'd like to come back to the office.  I tried to drag items on the desktop from the taskbar on the desktop, but nothing happens.  It's as if the desktop is locked.  Time virus scan clean.  Windows updated last night, but I don't know if that is related.   Any ideas?  Thank you.

  Restore point:

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/using-Windows-Vista-system-restore/

  Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

  Try typing F8 at startup and in the list of Boot selections, select Mode safe using ARROW top to go there > and then press ENTER.

  Try a restore of the system once, to choose a Restore Point prior to your problem...

  Click Start > programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore > choose another time > next > etc.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• The desktop icons all moving them to the left side of the desktop.

  The desktop icons all moving them to the left side of the screen to the start or restart. I use Windows Vista.

  Hello

  System Restore works if you have a point of return to until the icons have been changed if there is a lot to do
  just for the positioning of the icon. Right click on desktop - view and you probably have the reorganization and align it on the grid
  checked.

  How to make a Vista system restore
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-System-Restore-how.html
  How to create a Vista System Restore Point
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76332-system-restore-point-create.html
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  Difficulty for the desktop icons set in not getting saved after restarting Windows
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/fix-desktop-icons-layout-not-saved-restart/

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  These Vista works, but they are a download.

  Save and restore the desktop icon layout in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout/

  Save and restore the desktop icon Layout in Windows Vista - free
  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout-in-Windows-Vista/

  TIP : right click on desktop - DISPLAY - uncheck AutoArrange and snap to grid when you want to restore the icons
  or restoring won't work. You can re - check those as needed later and apply the Align attribute on the grid before the
  Auto arrange.

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  Office catering - free
  http://www.MIDIOX.com/

  Info
  http://www.MIDIOX.com/HTML/desktop.htm

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  Lock the post Office icons and disable right click
  http://www.techmynd.com/lock-desktop-icons-position-and-disable-right-click/

  I hope this helps.
  Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.

• When I click on a desktop icon it always opens as a minmize. How do I open it to enlarge the form

  I use windows 8 in a new Dell computer. There are 40 + icons on the desktop and when I click on a desktop icon that it always opens minimize the form. How do I open it to enlarge the form?

  Hi, Philippe A.Morrissette,.

  Thank you for writing to Microsoft Communities.

  According to the description of the problem, it seems that you try to open the desktop icons to enlarge the form.

  Please go ahead and follow the steps mentioned from the link and later a update on the State of the question.

  Method 1: No matter what shortcut you use to launch the window, right-click and select Properties. Under the 'Run' drop-down list, choose "expanded".

  Method 2: Also try to grab the corners of the window and drag it to the format full screen.  Do not use Maximize. First close all other windows via the taskbar and this last one. Windows will remember the size of the last closed window the next time that you open the program.

  Please follow these recommended steps and post if you still experience the problem.

• Cannot change the font color on the desktop icons

  I am running windows vista. I can't change the font as in windows xp. No matter if the background is dark or the police is always black... Help!

  Hello

  Thanks for posting the question in Microsoft Answers.

  I apologise for the inconvenience.

  Unfortunately, you cannot change the font color of desktop.

  Because desktop wallpaper images have different colors, it is easy for the colors of unreadable fonts if they are on top of the same color in a background image to display. For example, a black font on top a dark part of the background image or a white font on a white part of a background image.

  The desktop icon fonts are dynamic and show white on dark background and change in white with a shadow effect black on a light background.

  In previous versions of Windows, it did not matter what color you chose to fund policies, some would still make invisible because of the background color of a desktop wallpaper. The user was constantly moving icons around the desktop computer to another colorful area where the police could be read. This was the source of a large number of complaints from users asking for a policy that was still visible, regardless of the color that was behind the police.

  However, you can change the theme and see if that helps:

  Change desktop theme:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-desktop-theme

  Hope this information helps. Let us know if you need additional assistance. We are happy to help you.

• Failure of the desktop icons

  We have Windows XP.  The desktop icons under their usual appearance at the appearance of the white pages and no longer connect to their respective programs, when you click on it.  How solve us this problem?

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  We have Windows XP.  The desktop icons under their usual appearance at the appearance of the white pages and no longer connect to their respective programs, when you click on it.  How solve us this problem?

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  The Windows XP PowerToy for free... TweakUI has an option
  for the reconstitution of the icons... it might be worth a try.

  (FWIW... it's always a good idea to create a system)
  Restore point before installing software or updates)

  Click on the following link... Featured downloads / TweakUI.

  Windows XP downloads
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/downloads/Windows-XP

  For instructions, see the following article:

  Repair or rebuild icons in Windows XP using Tweak UI
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/repair-icons-Windows-XP-using-Tweak-UI/

• hdiutil detach is not delete the desktop icon

  I write an installation script.  With the help of hdiutil, I am able to mount the DMG, copy the stop bits and then, supposedly, detach the drive.  Detachment seems to be working (the dough is capture of the output log file):

  30/08/16 21:18:30 UPDATE APPLY: hdiutil detach succeeded

  30/08/16 21:18:30 UPDATE if APPLIES: "disk3" not mounted.

  "disk3" ejected.

  However, the installation icon is always on the desktop.

  Is there a way to get hditutil to remove the icon that it put?

  Thank you

  Coyot

  http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/eject-or-unmount-a-disk-through-the-Terminal/

• How can I remove the shadows on the desktop icons

  my icons have a blue background, how can I remove this blue highlight

  I did the two steps and always with shadows. This Monday last after a Windows Update.
  Before updating my theme Windows was classic. After restarting of theme look to XP with the shadows :( Anything else I can do?

  OS: Win XP Home Edition

  Thanks in advance.

  http://marksxp.MVPs.org/WindowsXP/boarders.php

  This border on the desktop icons can be created when the elements of the Office was locked, to unlock the desktop items web right click on an empty area of your desktop. Now, select arrange icons by and uncheck "Web Lock Desktop items" if she has a little check mark next to it. If you did not have a tick here and then right click on your my computer icon and view its properties, now click on the Advanced tab click the button settings running. Now on the Visual Effects tab scroll effects to 'use the shadows of the desktop icon labels' and put a tick in the box next to it, and then click ok. This should remove the border from the shadow of your desktop icons.

  Just like that.

• The desktop icons and taskbar are at least three minutes to load when I start the computer.

  Original title: problem with the desktop icons

  All of a sudden when I start my computer, the icons on the desktop and icons at the bottom of the clock of the take at least three minutes to load, and before that time, they used to load in a few seconds.  Also, I have no problem with the computer start.  Any help to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.

  According to the specifications of your system, hard drives on your system are disks IDE (not the SATA drives).

  Sometimes the Interface IDE mode can change from DMA mode to PIO mode and when that happens, things sudden. run very slowly, but it is easy to check and adjust if you need to.

  Here's how:

  If you are using IDE drives, use Device Manager to check the channel Transfer Mode IDE is set to something like DMA if available (depends on your hardware) and the slow PIO mode.
    
  Don't forget: PIO is the slowest, DMA is faster.

  It is easy to check and usually easy to fix and the mode would not have changed in itself, so if she changed to PIO, change it to DMA, and then understand why it changed and fix it.

  To launch the Device Manager console, click Start, run and enter in the box:

  %SystemRoot%\System32\devmgmt.msc

  Click OK.

  Expand the section controller IDE / ATA to see your IDE channels. Each right click and choose Properties for each channel that has a tab advanced settings, determine the Transfer Mode. There are usually 4 channels to check in a desktop computer, maybe less for laptops.

  Faster selection will always be a kind of selection DMA (usually: DMA DMA5, UDMA, etc.).  If it is PIO, change it to DMA.
    
  If you are unsure of what you see after return of help and advice.
    
  If you make settings, restart and check the settings again to make sure that any change stick.
    
  What may have caused the change?
    
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/817472

• The desktop icons and taskbar disappear when windows has finished starting - any of the usual things help

  I have a Windows XP Home Edition with a breath main card computer.  Replaced the Board, PS and other items.  Then re-activated windows and everything was fine.  Until the last moment, I rebooted after activating it.  I have the problem that I have seen posted in a bit.  When Windows has finished initializing all the desktop icons and task bar etc. disappear.  Nothing works.

  I can bring up the Task Manager and manually run programs, etc.

  Believe me when I say I spent reviewing EACH reference to this problem... Yes 5 days and counting... Tried them all.

  I also tried a repair of windows in place which ends without any problem (twice)... but still no icons or taskbar.  I also ran several controls of virus, including one for the virus, which is usually the cause of this problem.  (fsnimda3.exe), I tried all the ideas in another thread (page 9) and many other institutions.  Before I did the reconstruction of the material I've cloned the original hard drive and have used the disc cloned juggling his original for the back.  Even tried to reinstall the old disk and do a comparison of sector by sector, in the case where my cloning process missed something.  In the 30 years I've been in the computer business I have never had a re - format a hard drive to solve a problem.  BUT I think it will break my record.

  I'm doing this as a favor for a friend.  But at this point our friendship is really put to the test

  Hello

  This thread has been created in wrong forum; Microsoft moderation team has moved this thread to the system repair and recovery forum.

• The desktop icons do not respond after the use of IE

  Hello

  Anyone got a solution for this? When the computer is turned on I can use the icons on the desktop, no problem. However, after I used Internet Explorer from the desktop icons don't respond well the pograms can be opened from the start menu. As the recent problem I tried uninstalling some updates recently installed, without solving the problem. Using Windows Vista and IE9

  After that I used Internet Explorer from the desktop icons do not respond

  Does that mean exactly?   For example, what do you see?   For the best answer to this question, you could use ProcMon and know what modules are involved when you do what these are.   ;  )

  However, without using ProcMon you can check with the Manager task or resource or ProcExp monitor if there is always a hidden background iexplore.exe processes running or anything related to IE which started as a result of your using IE.   If so then try to kill these processes.   Etc.

  Related to this, you could also consider what you used IE before your symptoms occurred.   This means that would understand that make your "desktop icons" and change it to something more neutral.   For example, if you had clicked on was a shortcut Internet (aka the .url file) that requires a network connection, change for people who only runs locally, such as about: blank.   So if you could close the window that has opened and always use the shortcut you would have refined your description of symptom to involve the network connections.

  Related to that, would be your security package, for example, some are trying to act as a hidden proxy to "analyze" the HTTP traffic.   Then the problem would not be IE but the hidden proxy.  Etc.

  You can't wait for a "fix" until you have a fully understood symptom.   More details and diagnosis is necessary IMO.

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• How can I prevent the desktop icons move arround whenever a different profile is open?

  We have windows vista with 2 user profiles that are the main ones used.

  How can I add/remove/move the desktop icons on my profile without moving/remove on the profile of other people?

  What is the point of having 2 different profiles, so everything I do on my effects profile profile of others?

  also is it possible to add/remove programs (games, downloads) without doing the same for the other profile of people?

  Hi JexterMaxim,

  1. what type of user accounts that you use?
  2. don't you log on as an administrator?
  3. don't you make changes to the agreement of the issue occur?

  When you install a program, you will need to select the installation option in particular only to user accounts. Not in user accounts. You can try the following steps.

  Desktop shortcuts are stored in one of two places:
  (a) in c:\Users\Public\Desktop. These shortcuts are shared and are visible to the user ever.
  (b) in c:\Users\UserName\Desktop. These shortcuts are not shared and are visible to the user.

  When you right click on a shortcut, and then click general, then you can see where this particular shortcut is stored.

  To make a shortcut of the group a) visible to yourself, do this method:
  a. drag the shortcut to the side with the right button of the mouse.
  b. Select "copy". You have now two seemingly identical shortcuts.
  c. delete the original shortcut.

• Strange aspect of the desktop icons

  This AM when I started the PC, two of the desktop icons had question marks as part of their images. The QMS were built around images, something like the little arrows that indicate that an icon is a shortcut.

  Indicate these polling points?

  This AM when I started the PC, two of the desktop icons had question marks as part of their images. The QMS were built around images, something like the little arrows that indicate that an icon is a shortcut.

  Indicate these polling points?

  Maybe it's that something has corrupted the icon cache.  See this tutorial.

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html