Windows screwing up icon layout
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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
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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
Harsh but fair. :D - Bookmarks bar in chrome; a single click, and I always have my browser open; - My applications know where my documents are, because I've been working on them; - Disabled the recycle bin, WinKey+E for explorer; - Don't use dropbox, but can't you doubleclick on the icon in the systray? - D:\temp; - My scripts are in `PATH`. Look at that, it's almost like we can use an operating system in different ways. ;)
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Harsh but fair. :D - Bookmarks bar in chrome; a single click, and I always have my browser open; - My applications know where my documents are, because I've been working on them; - Disabled the recycle bin, WinKey+E for explorer; - Don't use dropbox, but can't you doubleclick on the icon in the systray? - D:\temp; - My scripts are in `PATH`. Look at that, it's almost like we can use an operating system in different ways. ;)
Next we're going to see cats and dogs sleeping together, C developers embracing garbage collection and browsers using consistent rendering models. OK, the last one was a joke.
cheers Chris Maunder
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Wouldn't know. I keep mine bare. Like a normal person.
including setting your desktop background to a Bear?
maze3 wrote:
including setting your desktop background to a Bear?
Naw, he probably set it to Wonkavision of beer.
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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.
I hadn't noticed W10 stopping anyone from having desktop icons if that's what they prefer. W10 works great contrary to the comments from the "I hate change" crowd.
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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.
I hadn't noticed W10 stopping anyone from having desktop icons if that's what they prefer. W10 works great contrary to the comments from the "I hate change" crowd.
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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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Dave KreskowiakWindows update seems to be working round the clock to undo all your carefully set preferences. I have almost given up trying.
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If you do that to a friend, I can't imagine what happens to your enemies...
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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
Yup, creators update and the left column of icons keeps getting moved. Sometimes things move out of the left column and sometimes into the left column. I tried to remove everything from the left column so as not to cause too much change, but Windows kept putting new items into the left column and them moving them.
