Windows 10: Desktop icons keep rearranging

Solved! Fresh install without ESET Smart Security or ESET AV etc ( I had ESS 8), just keep Windows Defender, good enough, or use another AV.

Recovery backup not usefull, if contain ESET, problem persist after windows update!

 

Solved! Fresh install without ESET Smart Security or ESET AV etc ( I had ESS 8), just keep Windows Defender, good enough, or use another AV.

Recovery backup not usefull, if contain ESET, problem persist after windows update!

 

Solved! Fresh install without ESET Smart Security or ESET AV etc ( I had ESS 8), just keep Windows Defender, good enough, or use another AV.

Recovery backup not usefull, if contain ESET, problem persist after windows update!

 

I like to position all my desktop icons in a custom order, but since I took my PC into the Geeks to remove a suspected virus, my desktop icons keep returning to default positions upon restart or refresh. I've experimented with unchecking grid and align options, and even followed instructions found online that instructed me how to modify the registry, yet no success. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

Auto Arrange is not on.
It happens especially when you turn your monitor off then later turn it back on.

 

I use this third party software from the link below ( Desktop Restore ) . I know it doesn't include windows 10 but it works for me and I'm using the 64bit

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I have five Windows 10 computers, it only happens when the computer uses a 4k TV as a monitor. The order the icons are sorted into is 'date modified' which is very weird. I can't stop it, but a tacky solution is to change the date modified, so that icons come out in a sensible order. 'bulkfilechanger-x64' does that, and it's free. There are a lot of bugs in windows 10, so don't expect a quick fix. (eg New music player that just disappears after a couple of seconds of playing a flac)

 

I use a docker, every time I reconnect with a much bigger screen they change. They also change often after a reboot I also have tried everything and its maddening never knowing where on the desktop an icon is now!

 

I have the similar problem BUT only with a certain program(s). I have Hoyle Card Games and Hoyle Puzzle and Board Games installed; they play OK but when I exit either program my desktop icons have rearranged to the left side. I installed DeskTopOK but it is a pain to have to use it all the time. Any solutions to this aggravating problem? I have Windows 10 64 bit with the latest update(Threshold 2/November Update). Thank you

 

I could tell you more, but it is related to scaling each font scale has a different icon layout. There is one for 100%, 125%, and 150%. The system gets confused. Latest I noticed, every time I turned off the screen and turned it on again the fonts would all be realigned. Also (unlike earlier experience) the auto arrange flag would be re-turned on. My solution (which you won't like) was to replace everything on the desktop with a shortcut. You can create normal shortcuts (including recycle) for everything, these are sortable. Add a sequence number and leave auto arrange on. Windows can't **** this up, and if it does, just resort. A pain in the arse, but my desktop is useable now.

 

When I first installed W10 no problem. Then i corrupted W10 and had to re-install. Since then it keeps shuffling my icons in a way I don't want. Can anyone please help fix this.

 

I have discovered that every time I turn off my monitor the screen changes sizes to 800x600 then when I turn it back on it goes back to my actual setting of 4096x2160.

When it does this it rearranges everything to the left. All the icons, all the open windows and all the open programs.
I suspect this does this because of HDMI and reporting back from the monitor.

I don't know who's fault it is but it falls into the category of Microsoft and all this automatic BullSHT of trying to interpret what you want.
Well I want it to stop and that's why I disable a good majority of running junk on my setup.
Microsoft goes out of their way to stop choice which leads me to choose a different operating system.

If I CHOOSE 1080P or 4K Ultra then save my screen positions of everything I have and leave it alone.
They did this crap with the folder sizes and position and now they are doing it with the desktop.

What would be the purpose of resizing my screen when I turn the monitor off.
Using a VGA connector never had this issue but now that in the 21st century I am forced into HDMI or I don't get a 4K screen they play stupid.

You would think by the time Threshold 2 came out that this would have been fixed but nope, politics as usual so they fix moronic and unnecessary garbage like having one more column to the start menu for paying apps.

 

Richard,

I didn't say it earlier, but I have a 4k monitor with an HDMI connection also. I didn't realise the definition swapped while the monitor was off. But every single time the monitor goes off the icons are rearranged. To me this makes this problem a far more wide spread problem than the number of complaints indicate. I suspect people are just giving up, and saying bad luck!

This also indicates that Microsoft have done very little testing of standard domestic environments, or just don't care.

 

I tested this by running Bandicam while I turned the monitor off.
If anything 100% of the screen should not have changed. The only thing that should have happened was the monitor went off.
I even disabled all the reporting mechanisms that rescale bla bla bla as far as nvidia's settings and nothing.
Microsoft has all this autoscale and resolution changing for best possible performance instead of leaving the system the hell alone and to what the end user wants.

I'm going to do research and see if there is a way to disable the automatic screen change because I think that's where this lies.
I have another system with two monitors and to this day Microsoft still has one setting for both monitors.
One setting for blanking screen, one setting for screen savers, one setting for power saver.
I have to look to 3rd parties just to do what I want in a multimonitor environment so maybe there is an app somewhere for what I am looking for. I'll keep everyone posted because MS isn't fixing this anytime soon.

 

Here I am looking at the same damn problem going back to Windows 7 and some are saying that it was in XP.

Here is a link to one of the articles.
Disable detection, how?

What you get is a run around by some Indian at Microsoft screaming just live with it.

So here we are from XP to 10 which is Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 10TH2 and several service packs across the OS's and this behavior is not being fixed or is about to be fixed. Same as removing the feature for your folders size and shape to remain...That's not coming back despite user complaints.
Microsoft cares less about user desires and more about their engineers out of India.