THE DESKTOP ICONS WON'T STAY WHERE I PUT THEM

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  How the icon change of investment remain.  Like a good dog.  Children stay, stay.  It's a good doggy.  Thank you, Joey

  Hello

  Welcome to the community forums of Microsoft and thanks for posting the question. I've surely you will help organize the desktop icons in the way you want.

  You can download a hotfix in the following article:

  The desktop icons are rearranged unexpectedly on a Windows Vista- go or Windows Server 2008 even if the auto arrange setting is disabled

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/961085

  Alternatively, you can search for different third-party software using your favorite search engine.

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• How can I prevent the office move my icons! On XP, they stayed where I put them. Help!

  I had my dear start XP icons grouped together on the desk as I wanted.

  Now, on Windows 7, whenever I connect, an evil force has moved their.

  It drives me crazy!

  Help!  How can I say 7 to LEAVE MY CONFIGURATION only ONE ICON!

  TIA

  HB

  Right click on an empty area on the desktop and choose "sort by" and uncheck the option "auto arrange".

  Also note that Windows will move your icons if you switch to a different monitor/TV or plug in or unplug a monitor.  It does if the monitors have different numbers of pixels, so no icon is set up out of sight.

• Keep the desktop icons where I put them to restart the computer

  I fix my desktop icons I would.  The next time I turn on my computer they are all back on the left side again.  Is it possible that I can make their stay where I put them.  What is the point of reorganization if I can't.

  Hi bragabaron,

  See if the following procedure helps you.

  1. open Regedit.exe minimize.
  2. Click Start, shut down the computer.
  3. press on and press and hold the CTRL, ALT and SHIFT keys and click on the Cancel button.
  4. switch to the window of the registry editor and find the following key:

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop

  5. rename the "Desktop" key to something else, say 'OldDesktop '.
  6. close the registry editor
  7. press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to open the Task Manager
  8. click on the stop menu, then select "logout ".
  9 reconnect customize once again, the placement of the icons on the desktop.
  10. restart Windows and see if the icon positions are kept.

  Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Desktop Experience]

• Rearrange the desktop icons themselves after never restart.

  DESK TOP ICONS (SHORTCUTS)

  WHENEVER I HAVE TO TURN OFF MY COMPUTER, THE DESK TOP ICONS (SHORTCUTS) REARRANGE THEM SELVES.   HOW CAN I GET TO STAY WHERE I PUT THEM?

  This does not work for me. The refresh or reboot, the icons back to the left side of the screen. Thanks anyway.

• How the auto you can organize the desktop icon anywhere?

  How can I auto arrange desktop icons in Windows 7 where I want them instead of how Windows wants them to be?

  I have turned auto organize off and arranged the icons in the order and location I would, but when I click Auto arrange to keep

  to place their return to order of Windows needs changes.

  That's what arrange made by design. A tool like this might meet your needs.
   
  The intensive care unit icon Configuration utility
  http://funk.EU/ICU-icon-configuration-utility/ 
   

• The desktop icons: sort by name > 2 tris, sorta... where is this a 01.abc - simple > z list view?

  I'm having a problem with the icons sorting Office.
  There are about 60 icons on my desktop. A bouquet, I might add a multiplicity instantly. When I right-click on a vacuum of space on the desktop and select sort by > name I get 2 tris:
  1 the party 'all users '.
  1 part of my profile

  and then there's old Windows icons that appears first in the list as are not part of a tea / which was the cottage.

  Vista w64

  Uhm?

  P.S.:
  I tried this (setting) after installation on several windows 7 built... the latest version (7068 w32 is the last that I caught through usenet after cancellation of the torrent, Can not beat usenet service & I'm on TechNet Plus) even sorts icons windows differently whenever I have even perform the same type of name?
  Although windows is clear it is grr...
  Just do a right click Sort by name and that's it, the platoon of the desktop icons in order of alpbethical?

  Hello, bambig

  If you think that this is something that needs to be changed to windows you can give your comments on the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/outreach/feedback/feedback.mspx.

  David
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

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  On a box empty your office
  Right click > view > deselect "auto arrange" and align the icons on a grid.

  I hope this helps.