Windows screwing up icon layout
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Yeah, I just got hit by the same thing two days ago. I don't know what caused it. I had the 1703 update applied two weeks ago.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
all my extremely OCDly organised icons
If you're that OCD, or just want to keep things organized, I really recommend [Fences : Software from Stardock](https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/) And if @PIEBALDconsult drops by, just double-click on the desktop and all the icons are hidden. ;) (Double-click again and they re-appear.) They used to have a "restore" option because Windows 7 would obliterate things once in a while, but on W10 with the latest fences, I don't see that option, so maybe they've figured out how to "fix" W10.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Anyone else being plagued by this?
Haven't seen this.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I haven't seen the icons get rearranged, but I HAVE seen the desktop and taskbar refresh themselves sometimes. It's as if Explorer (the shell) is being rebooted.
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Wouldn't know. I keep mine bare. Like a normal person.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Been doing it to me since Vista. I keep mine lined up in columns, LHS of screen, but I have just given up on trying to maintain MY ordering. I don't recall seeing it happen dynamically as you describe; it's mostly after a reboot, sleep/hibernate or screen/monitor reconfiguration. Cheers, Peter
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
You realise with w10 you're supposed to use uwp-metro with big ass baby blocks do you know how hard ms worked to give you that? and then gave it to you for free? show some appreciation and do what nads want's you to do: 1. just shut up and suck up whatever we give you as-is, 2. why? because after examining all of your data only we know what's best for you 3. and just because. please avoid the old efficient desktop with icons and such like things they way you like them the desktop and pretty much all customisation likely to be removed in future updates ... oh wait, you say only in some versions, isn't there supposed to be only one windows 10? good on ya ms, remove the confusion, by replacing it with even less understood product.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Every time I hibernate and restart the computer with different monitors. Or, undock or redock which also change the monitor layout. Properly stopping and starting the computer with different monitor layouts doesn't mess up the icons. It certainly helped my OCD a bit, I'm leaving the icons where they end up nowadays, and I'm slowly migrating towards Piebald. But I'd still be thankful if you find a useful solution.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Anyone else being plagued by this?
Nope. It sounds to me like you need to perform and exorcism on your computer.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Haven't had that. But I do keep all my icons (the few I have) on a monitor other than the main display maybe it's only the main display that has the problem?
Tom
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I stopped updating windows after Win2k. I haven't seen anything like that.
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Wouldn't know. I keep mine bare. Like a normal person.
Oh hush! As he glances at his cluttered desktop even though he has Fences installed.... Doc told me years ago the secret for a long life: get an ailment and nurse it for as long as you can. I have a bad case of icon rot...
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Seen it in every version since at least XP. Most commonly when something triggers a screen resolution change. This was a recurring dumpsterfire at my old job when going from docked and laptop lid closed to undocked and laptop screen in use. At home I get it occasionally when installing a GFX driver update independently from windows update (which I assume does it during the reboot phase to avoid damage).
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread. I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen. Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Take a screenshot of the icons where you want them, set that as the desktop, and get rid of the old icons ;P
That's so evil I'm going to have to use it on a friend.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Anyone else being plagued by this?
Nope. It sounds to me like you need to perform and exorcism on your computer.
I did that. I even burned sage.
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