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Shane:
OK that looks fine as well.

Are you able to drag a icon on the desktop and move it to a different spot or does it get put right back?

Reason why I ask is I have noticed on Windows when the icons auto arrange they keep auto arranging till I manually move 1 icon and then it stops.

Shane

PidgeDR:
Yes I can drag an Icon to a different position and it will stay in that position until I either do something that causes the screen to refresh or until I shut down the computer. Either way the Icons will always go back to the alphabetical auto arrange position. I can add new icons no problem and they, upon shutdown or refresh find their way into auto arrange alphabetical order.
I've scratched my head on this one for years and was just hoping that something got corrupted that your windows repair utility could or would repair.
Thanks again for your help on this issue!
Pidge Gill

Shane:
I have had that happen to me as well.

Once you move a icon I want you to right click on a blank spot on the desktop and then click refresh.

When you do that Windows should write the icon positions to the registry. If that doesnt work then I think the problem is Windows isnt writing the locations like it should and it isnt a auto arrange problem but a not saving locations problem.

Lets see if that refresh trick works first. :wink:

Shane

PidgeDR:
I did as you instructed and they fly right back into their original position.
Thanks,
Pidge

Shane:
Ok so it looks like Windows isnt saving the icon positions.

Open regedit and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop

Right click on that and click export and save it. Attach that reg file for me so I can see if the regkey is holding anything for the icons.

There would be a item based on your screen resolution such as ItemPos1920x1080 and in those keys is the position for the icons are stored.

Shane

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