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
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.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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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).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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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.
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 put icons on your desktop? :^)
Software Zen:
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That's so evil I'm going to have to use it on a friend.
cheers Chris Maunder
If you do that to a friend, I can't imagine what happens to your enemies...
Software Zen:
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I did that. I even burned sage.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
I even burned sage.
:-D
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You put icons on your desktop? :^)
Software Zen:
delete this;Some people like Macs. :shrug:
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Some people like Macs. :shrug:
Actually, I'm not a Mac user. I've just never liked a cluttered desktop. I'll drop stuff there temporarily at times, but it's usually empty.
Software Zen:
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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).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Same here for a Long time. Finally decided to install a thing called "DesktopOK" to restore the Desktop :)
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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
On a Surface? Generally Windows 10 is all good on other machines, but my Surface likes to s**t itself every now and again (more frequently than that - I think it may need a prostate check) and explorer crashes and restarts resulting in the icons get loosely spaced, anchored top-left.