Arrange the icons the way you want them.ģ. I haven't had my icons rearrange themselves as far back as I can remember.Ģ. In my case I also keep the Taskbar at the top and auto-hidden, though I don't think that should matter. In some cases occasionally I put icons on the second monitor as well. I have lines of icons running across near the top and bottom of my primary monitor (of two), so that I can usually see them if I'm running windowed apps that don't cover quite the whole I do things a lot like what you have described, sbrant001. Works realu good and gives your desktop a look almost like the new windows 8, but works just like windows 7. I did not use windows reguistry editor 5.00 that registry setting saves the position of items on the desktop when you shut down also you want to make sure toĪdd the part " Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00". then close everything and click on the file and choose "merge". when you go to save it change the "Save as type" from "Text Documents (*.txt)" to "All Files" and name it anything with a. When you say "LOCK the icon items on my desktop" I'm assuming that you mean to keep them from re-arranging themselves with a reboot? If that is what you mean, then just copy then paste whats below to notepad, then click on "File>save as." at the top,
So it's at least possible that it should work the way you want it to.
Least not with the video cards I've used and drivers I've used.
I have the same two monitors on and connected all the time and on average I only reboot this system every week or two (pretty much only when Windows Update needs it), but it's enough to know that this problem isn't a basic design flaw of Windows - at That used to happen occasionally with Vista, but not with Windows 7. I have never, to the best of my memory, had my desktop icons become rearranged on their own, across any reboot, in 3 years of using Windows 7. Those of you losing your icon positions across reboots, can you be more specific about what you're doing, please? Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
Not a big problem, true, but kind of a drag, so if anybody knows how to pin/lock the icons in place I'd be very grateful to know how. I would understand it, and accept it, if it ocurred only after I, say, change the resolution, but it happens randomly, 'unprovoked'. But every once in a while upon boot they are moved to the left side of the screen, not sorted alphabetically (which, at least, would have been some help) but in completely random order so it takes unnecessarily long to find what youre looking for.
The desktop 'feels like home' to put it simply, plus it looks good. When I have moved the icons around so that they are grouped into categories (roughly) and have their fixed places, it's easy to find what I'm looking for, and one gets used to it, like the layout of ones apartment for example. For the sake of easy navigation I try to keep the number to a minimum. Hiya, does anybody know of a way (in Windows 7) to lock/pin the desktop icons in place once you have arranged them? My desktop isn't exactly cluttered, I think, there are at any given moment some 45-50.