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
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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).
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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.
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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.
I keep my icons stacked at the left, and if I want one, I look for it in alphabetical order.
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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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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
I find that sometimes after a major update the icons end up stacked against the left side point the screen. I am a normal person. I have yet to see anyone who uses Windows who has a blank screen!
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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.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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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
Why anyone would ever have icons on their desktop terrifies and disgusts me. I wish my 4k screen didn't flicker when I turn it on from standby, requiring me to unplug and replug the DisplayPort, then move the start bar back off to the left screen, then resize the start bar to fit the day name in the clock. THAT'S a real annoyance. :/
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Used to happen after video driver updates, or display setting changes. I now keep a screen capture of my desktop just so I can put all my shortcut icons back in the same place and order again.
Video driver updates I see mentioned already. I have had a few programs that are productivity and game based - that have the ability to work in a window or fullscreen do the same. The screen flashes and or resets all or just some of the icons on the desktop. I find that if I have moved things around and have not right clicked on the mouse on the desktop to refresh the screen, whatever I haved moved sometimes moves back.
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Why anyone would ever have icons on their desktop terrifies and disgusts me. I wish my 4k screen didn't flicker when I turn it on from standby, requiring me to unplug and replug the DisplayPort, then move the start bar back off to the left screen, then resize the start bar to fit the day name in the clock. THAT'S a real annoyance. :/
That's a fairly harsh reaction. Just to amuse you then: - I have shortcuts to common sites I use. It saves me a couple of clicks - I often need to work on multiple documents and I store shortcuts to the folders those documents are in on the desktop - I have the bin and a shortcut to "This PC" - I have shortcuts to Dropbox because it saves a couple of clicks - I'll often have a few temp files lying around. Not many, but maybe half a dozen - I have shortcuts to some important maintenance scripts All this could absolutely be replaced by QuickLinks in Explorer, or pinning them to the taskbar, or using the Start Menu, but I like to just double click and go.
cheers Chris Maunder
