Why move my icons on my desktop? Windows 7

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  Hello

  Thanks for posting this question in the Microsoft Community.

  If I understand correctly, you are not able to drag icons on the desktop. I'll certainly try and help you in the matter of fixing.

  To help you to propose measures to solve the problem, I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:

  1. Since when are you facing the issue?

  2. you have any security program installed on the computer?

  3. what happens when you try to remove the icons?

  4. do you get an error message?

  5. are you aware of any changes made to the computer before the show?

  Run a full scan using the Microsoft Safety Scanner and check for infections.

  Note: there is a risk of data loss if all the files are infected and which can be removed in the cleaning process.

  If the problem persists, start the computer in safe mode and perform a clean boot. Clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  Note: when you are finished troubleshooting, follow step 3, mentioned in the article to start the computer to a normal startup.

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• You will need to expand the menu, task bars bars and icons on the desktop window.

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  Check out the links that will help you change the resolution of the screen below. Resolution of the screen allows you to increase the size of the menu bar and the toolbar.

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  Hello

  the process is called for the restoration of the system

  try a restore of the system before this happened

  http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/system_restore.htm

  If necessary do in safe mode

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• How to specify the names of the icons on the desktop?

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  You can also, also simply press on and hold the Ctrl Key and move the scroll on the mouse wheel to resize the icons.

  I hope this helps.

  Thank you for using Windows 7

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