Windows 10: Desktop icons keep rearranging when connecting to my 34' external monitor.

Every time I connect my laptop to my external monitor all my desktop icons gets rearranged. Now, I think that this is because of the difference in resolution or scaling. Is there a work around in the matter. It's getting really irritating.Also, before this I was using a MacBook, and I never faced this problem there, even when the resolution and scaling of both the items MacBook and monitor were different.Kindly help!Thanks

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desktop icons rearrange after connect/disconnect external monitor

I use a second monitor to extend my desktop every day at work. After upgrade to windows 10, everytime I disconnect the monitor and restart all of my icons are now shoved to the left and rearranged by type. This is very frustrating. I've got 'auto arrange
icons' deselected and haven't found any other options. This is getting pretty frustrating, anyone have any suggestions?

 

Desktop Icons Rearranged To Laptop Monitor From External Monitor

Windows 10 laptop. I connect it to an external monitor and use hdmi cable. My external monitor is my main monitor. I use the laptop monitor as the secondary monitor. I extend the display.



My desktop icons are always on my external monitor desktop. I had moved the hdmi cable connected to my laptop i believe which caused all my icons from my external monitor to go on the laptop monitor. Also there is even spacing on all of the icons. Has anyone had this happened? I then clicked sort and then it rearranged so there is no spacing etc. However, i then noticed hey why are my icons on my laptop monitor and not my external monitor.



Does anyone know why this happened? When i open chrome and other programs, it does open up on my external monitor though which is my primary monitor. I believe i can just drag each of the icons on my desktop on my laptop screen to my external monitor. So just do this and that fixes the issue right? Or is there a way to have all the icons just move to the external monitor. The reason i ask this is in case the icons just suddenly move to the laptop screen again.

 

Desktop icons move to primary monitor after connecting external monitor

Hi,

Please reply to the questions mentioned below in order to assist you in a better way.

• Did you make any changes to the computer prior to connecting the external monitor?
  
• Have you chosen the option of extending the display or duplicating display?

You may follow the below steps to reinstall the Display driver through device manager:


Do the uninstall procedure of drivers mentioned below -

• Press Windows Key + R on your desktop screen to go to run command box.
• Type devmgmt.msc and hit Enter.
• In Display Adapter, expand Display Adapter, right-click the device drivers listed, and then click
  Uninstall.
• When you are prompted to confirm that you want to remove the device, click
  OK.
• Restart the computer.

After the computer restarts, the drivers will be automatically installed.

Check if the Auto arrange icons option is enabled.

To do so, follow the steps given below:

a. Right-click an empty area of the
desktop.

b. Click View, and then click
Auto Arrange to clear the check mark next to it.

Please revert if you still face issue with desktop icons rearranging themselves.

Thank you.