Windows 10: Script or registry entry to set the display order for all desktop icon

I have a very good desktop restore app and so far my icons don't seem to be moving themselves. But I would like to have a method of doing a "sort by alphabetic" as a command line or registry key edit that I can set up a hotkey for if possible.
Glad you had not gotten to this yet so i can add a quickie.
Is there a way to increase the "hang-time" or whatever you want to cal it for the secondary menus.
such as right-click, choose New> then TRY to choose folder or file or whatever, the pop-out secondary window keeps closing no matter how slow and careful i try to be. Many time i am sure it is that i am "coloring outside the lines" if my cursor misses the box even a tiny bit. But:
can i simply say that once i Right click, choose New, that there be a Minimum display time for the Options Under New ? No matter what happens while i am moving cursor to the option i want. Maybe 2 seconds? Anything is better than now as i have a fraction of second to instantly hit my option once i move the mouse or the menu disappears

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Desktop Icons move when changing to or from Extending Display.

Thank you for providing the missing link for providing feedback. It allowed me to enter a bug report on windows calculator.

Today 2/1/2016 I got an email that asks if the Relocate Desktop Icons to Random locations issue has been resolve.

The answer is No. The issue remains as a problem.

I found another possible solution posted 'solution' but that did not work either.

This last change that did not fix the issue involved adding a new registry entry.

In regedit go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

Then create Key "Explorer"

Add new DWORD value "NoSaveSettings" and set to 0

Still waiting for a solution to Desktop Icon moved to random locations.

Please keep in mind that the new location of desktop items occurs with OS making changes to external display settings. The user (me) did not change the external display settings.

Loss of Laptop Display after leaving station with external display. Display setting became "Show only on 2". All the desktop icons moved too. Both items are issues that should be fixed.

 

Adjust the size of the font.

Hi,

The problem with that is that the update resets most all of the Text and Icon settings to Default...

At least the System and User Folders anyway.. I have other HDDs on which the Icons stay as I have them set, but the text always changes...

I did do as you suggest to a certain degree though... I set my Text and Icons up the way I want them in build 14393... The last build with the Advanced Display Settings I believe...

Then "Exported" the registry entry where they are saved...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics…

Then simply "Merge" it into the Registry with each new build...

In reality, it is hoped that Microsoft will come to their senses and restore this setting in some fashion in future builds... I have seen suggestions on the Feedback Hub that this may actually happen..

 

*Smile
Thought i would share in case it might help others.
A friend at the DC Forum pointed me to this post on "Inability to Select Menus...Disappear too Fast"

They offered 3 or 4 options there but the very first one was so obvious it that i knew it would work: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
String Value: 'MenuShowDelay'

Default value: (should be) 'MenuShowDelay'='400', if not, change it. You can experiment down to 0,which gives a really fast response, but that is what you are trying to avoid.
You could even go higher, if it already shows 400. Try 600 and study the response.

This was probably from Windows 7 or earlier the post being dated 2010. The other options they offered had no easy cross-over to Windows 10 but this specific value was exactly what they listed. With default being 400. Mine being ZERO which as shown is about as fast as it can get!
Changing to 400 was an immediate fix. I hope this information may help someone else as Apparently I am not the only one who has seen this occur.

 

In addition: *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...dows-10-a.html

 

Thanks Brink! *Biggrin I wanted to add that I was able to find he culprit that caused all his in the first place. It is a program by IO-Bit called Advanced System Care. One of it's "speed-up" tweaks was the edit that changed the delay to "0". ASC was installed on all the systems i used, so it made it appear that it was a default setting. Thanks for the pointers that allowed me to locate how this happened *Smile

I was wondering if there is a way to "lock" specific registry keys to prevent important settings like this from being edited by "tweaking" utilities? I have seen methods to "unlock" specific registry keys but is there a way to lock the ones that, once I have them as I want them to stay, they cannot be easily modified by other software such as happened here?

 

I'm glad you found the culprit.

It'll be hard to lock registry keys that you don't know will be changed or not by some unknown program. The safest thing to do is to create a restore point before installing any software or making any changes. This way if it has an undesired side effect, you could do a system restore to quickly undo it.