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I hadn't noticed W10 stopping anyone from having desktop icons if that's what they prefer. W10 works great contrary to the comments from the "I hate change" crowd.
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I hadn't noticed W10 stopping anyone from having desktop icons if that's what they prefer. W10 works great contrary to the comments from the "I hate change" crowd.
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Been doing it to me since Vista. I keep mine lined up in columns, LHS of screen, but I have just given up on trying to maintain MY ordering. I don't recall seeing it happen dynamically as you describe; it's mostly after a reboot, sleep/hibernate or screen/monitor reconfiguration.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Used to happen after video driver updates, or display setting changes. I now keep a screen capture of my desktop just so I can put all my shortcut icons back in the same place and order again.
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Video driver updates I see mentioned already. I have had a few programs that are productivity and game based - that have the ability to work in a window or fullscreen do the same. The screen flashes and or resets all or just some of the icons on the desktop. I find that if I have moved things around and have not right clicked on the mouse on the desktop to refresh the screen, whatever I haved moved sometimes moves back.
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Every time I hibernate and restart the computer with different monitors.
Or, undock or redock which also change the monitor layout.
Properly stopping and starting the computer with different monitor layouts doesn't mess up the icons.
It certainly helped my OCD a bit, I'm leaving the icons where they end up nowadays, and I'm slowly migrating towards Piebald.
But I'd still be thankful if you find a useful solution.
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Same here for a Long time. Finally decided to install a thing called "DesktopOK" to restore the Desktop 
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Same here. One double click and they are back where they are supposed to be!
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Chris Maunder wrote: Anyone else being plagued by this?
Nope.
It sounds to me like you need to perform and exorcism on your computer.
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I did that. I even burned sage.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I even burned sage.
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Haven't had that.
But I do keep all my icons (the few I have) on a monitor other than the main display maybe it's only the main display that has the problem?
Tom
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I stopped updating windows after Win2k. I haven't seen anything like that.
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Take a screenshot of the icons where you want them, set that as the desktop, and get rid of the old icons 
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That's so evil I'm going to have to use it on a friend.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If you do that to a friend, I can't imagine what happens to your enemies...
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's more fun if you flip the image horizontally.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Seen it in every version since at least XP.
Most commonly when something triggers a screen resolution change. This was a recurring dumpsterfire at my old job when going from docked and laptop lid closed to undocked and laptop screen in use. At home I get it occasionally when installing a GFX driver update independently from windows update (which I assume does it during the reboot phase to avoid damage).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Seen it in every version since at least XP.
You're not going back far enough. I've seen icons getting shuffled around on the desktop since 95. At least it never happened on Windows 3.1, with its grouped Program Manager.
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You have some extraneous characters in your post title... "icon layout".
FWIW Win 8 does this to me from time to time too, and I saw it on XP back in the day as well. It's undoubtedly our fault.
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I've had it on a couple of occasions. There's a batch file here that I found very good to rebuild the icon cache:
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You put icons on your desktop? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Some people like Macs. :shrug:
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Actually, I'm not a Mac user. I've just never liked a cluttered desktop. I'll drop stuff there temporarily at times, but it's usually empty.
Software Zen: delete this;
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On a Surface?
Generally Windows 10 is all good on other machines, but my Surface likes to s**t itself every now and again (more frequently than that - I think it may need a prostate check) and explorer crashes and restarts resulting in the icons get loosely spaced, anchored top-left.
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