Windows 10: Windows 10: Folder View Settings and Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving

You have to either reset which makes your pc fresh (No files or apps in system drive) or restore to latest stored point.

Restore is the best option because it takes less time and most of your apps are stored as well as all the files. Once restored, uninstall Eset before it finds any virus and use different AV softwares or stay with windows security software.

More details about reset/restore, please check here

 

Try this our of curiosity - ver easy. Notice I'm just looking at the desktop icon issue for now.
Now what is the state of your 'Auto arrange icons' (rt click desktop, view, Auto arrange icons) when the icons ARE being auto arranged?
Try unticking it- are they being auto arranged? Move a desktop icon somewhere. Now tick it- what happens to the icon? (It should move to the LHS) - now untick it, move a couple of icons somewhere and restart. You might expect that to ensure whatever records the setting should be set appropriately.

If that has no effect, we then know something is overwriting the setting on each reboot, rather than it being one event.

Or, it's some entirely different kind of corruption.

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So just as before, try copying these two registry keys (they are big) from a working system.
HKU\S-1-5-21-1874168061-3408090847-1495916866-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{CEBFF5CD-ACE2-4F4F-9178-9926F41749EA}\Count\HRZR_PGYFRFFVBA:
HKU\S-1-5-21-1874168061-3408090847-1495916866-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{CEBFF5CD-ACE2-4F4F-9178-9926F41749EA}\Count\Q:\Ertvfgel Gbbyf\Ertfubg\Ertfubg 1-9 Havpbqr\Ertfubg-k86-Havpbqr.rkr:

Go to the non-working PC.
Find the equivalent keys in the registry, noting "S-1-5-21-1874168061-3408090847-1495916866-1001" will likely vary from PC to PC
Export those and save them. (Precaution).

Change that string in the .reg files you've exported from the working PC to match your non-working PC.
Merge the keys on your non-working PC.
Restart and check what happens to your desktop icons.

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If no progress, merge the reg files you exported from your non-working PC again to restore the original state.

 

Oops sorry, posted on wrong thread on this topic.. *Eek

 

Ah- my comment was addressed to DrUnKeNTiGeR. - now two pages back! Too early..

 

No problems here, windows icons are staying where I placed them. Folder views not changing.

 

Well, I decided to do restore point, (back to 6 days ago when my folder view was fine). It fixed that problem and immediately removed eset (bye, bye eset!).
Now folder view is running well.
Sigh... *Smile what a relief!
Folder view problem is very annoying. Couldn't work with that condition. Fortunately, I have restote points. Back to windows defender *Wink

 

please reboot your machine, my problem begun after I plug my flashdrive and one of my files indicated as a virus by eset and I roeboot my PC 4 days ago

*) Sorry for bad english

 

3 reboots today, no change.

 

This guy claims to have solved both desktop icons rearranging and explorer view settings changing unexpectedly:
Windows 7 X64 Auto Arrange Desktop Problem Solved
by removing a reg entry..

Anyone care to try it out- with due precautions (restore point/export existing key...)?

 

Yeah tried it long ago but there is no such reg entry in the stated path. Its actualy zero access virus that breaks desktop icons arrangement but we don't have such virus in our pc either.

I have also tried comparing os reg of working folder view and non working folder view settings but didn't found anything special. Apart from shell bags which doesn't help.

 

Same problem here with one of our Windows 10 PRO computers at work. Reboot and all the desktop icons move over to the right and where I had unchecked align icons to grid, is not back checked again. I also had small icons and they come back as medium icons.

I have Eset NOD32 AV (64 bit edition) , running Windows 10 pro, also I run Classic Shell on 3 computers at the winery. All have that same AV but only one of them has the issue with desktop icons going to the left after reboot. So don't think it's attributed to ESET unless there is some setting in the AV that is different from the other 2 computers.

 

People are pointing the finger of blame at Eset Nod32 or Eset Smart Security. Is the affected machine using Eset AV ?

 

If you guys haven't already tried, sometimes resetting folder views back to default helps with it not being remembered. Of course, you'll have to set your folder views again afterwards.

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

 

I'm also having the same problem, started 2 days ago, after a reboot the icons get back on the left and are big and in order *Cool so pretty much like everybody in this thread, I got ESETNOD32 8.0.319.1 installed 10 days ago, couldn't find any fix..

 

Mine is. I just added NOD32 and my desktop icons forget where they were and align to left side. View align is unchecked. Actually I have found that I uncheck in the view Align icons to left. When I reboot and find the icons aligned left I see that the check mark reappears in align left.