Windows 10: Desktop Icons Moving After Computer Wakes or Monitor is Turned Back on

Hi all,


Problem:
Desktop Icons move back to the left (default) side of the screen after customizing. this happens when the the computer is put into sleep mode and is woken up or when the monitor is turned off and turned back on. I upgraded to windows 10 Pro 64bit from windows 7 ultimate 64bit. This problem never happened with windows 7.


-Automatic Sleep mode is turned off - when I manually put computer to sleep mode and wake it up the icons are rearranged

-Automatic turn off monitor has been deactivated - when shut off my monitor but keep my computer on and then turn back on the monitor the icons have rearranged

-I have small icons setting

-Auto align icons has been deactivated

-allow themes to change icons has also been deactivated


My Computer:
LG 34UM65 - 21x9 - 2560x1080p resolution
AMD 9590
Asus Crosshair V Formula Z
Gigabyte HD7970ghz
Corsair Platinum Ram
WD HDD
Samsung 850Pro - Windows 10 is installed on the SSD
My Drivers are all up to date. and Motherboard Bios has just been updated to 2201


If anyone is reading this please help


regards,

:)

 

Desktop icons moving to monitor 2

Hi Ruth,

Thanks for the suggestion but I'm afraid I already had the desktop set up with "Auto arrange icons" unchecked and "Align icons to grid" checked; I have had it set like that for months.

To expand on the issue, the desktop windows I leave open also rearrange themselves into an area that represents a smaller desktop than that which is configured. Again, this is possibly because when waking up, the smaller monitor 2 desktop seems to come
alive first so all the windows appear there before being moved back when monitor 1 wakes up, at which point all windows (even the monitor 2 ones) are moved onto monitor 1. I've never worried too much about the windows because I have a third-party program
that will move them all back, but not the icons, sadly.

Regards,

Jim.

 

Sleep mode - Windows 10

I upgraded to MS 10. But, when I put it in sleep mode, after a while, it turns my monitor back on? Then, after a while, it turns the monitor off. Then it does the same process again, over and over. I wake up finding my PC monitor on or off?

I'm using a monitor and desktop.

This never happened with Windows 8.1. When I would put it in sleep mode, the only time it would open the monitor was:

A) if I accidentally moved my mouse

B) if I purposely tried to wake it up from sleep mode.

Any idea how to fix this?

 

I started seeing this occasionally too. Not sure of a solution.

I tried the right click on the desktop, view, and unchecked Align Icons to Grid. So far, after a sleep and a restart, icons remain where I left them.

 

Hi all, just registered to confirm that I too began experiencing this issue a few days ago. I'd been having other issues so I only just came to discover that this one existed on its own, unrelated.

This behavior started once I installed the Win 10 Fall update, and I can confirm it did indeed go away when I did the same as PJLLB - rightclick on desktop, and UNcheck "Align Icons to Grid."

I'll also note that my icons only seemed to move around after I launched a full-screen program and then exited back to desktop - or let my display go to sleep and then wake up, as in Chris25's experience.

Hope this helps some others!