Windows 10: Desktop icons won't stay on their places after connecting second monitor

Before connecting the second monitor all icons stayed where they were relative to each other when scaling them with Ctrl + mouse wheel.However, after connecting the second monitor and trying to scale desktop icons they are all placed on the 1st monitor they all move weirdly. They would never stay in the bottom of the screen or on the right part of screen. I suspect it could be because the monitors have different resolutions: the 1st one - 2560x1440 and the 2nd one - 1920x1080. And the icons on the first monitor position as if the resolution was 1920x1080 not 2560x1440. I can put them in th

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Windows 10 - Icons WILL NOT stay in place on the desktop

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Desktop Icons Won't Stay Put

Hi Laurie,

As per the issue description I understand that you are facing issues with desktop icons.

I suggest you try the following step in order to arrange the icons.

• Right click on the desktop.
• Click on view
• Check the option auto arrange icons.

Let us know if this helps.

Thanks.