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Yeah, I just got hit by the same thing two days ago. I don't know what caused it. I had the 1703 update applied two weeks ago.
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Windows update seems to be working round the clock to undo all your carefully set preferences. I have almost given up trying.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Chris Maunder wrote: all my extremely OCDly organised icons
If you're that OCD, or just want to keep things organized, I really recommend Fences : Software from Stardock
And if @PIEBALDconsult drops by, just double-click on the desktop and all the icons are hidden.  (Double-click again and they re-appear.)
They used to have a "restore" option because Windows 7 would obliterate things once in a while, but on W10 with the latest fences, I don't see that option, so maybe they've figured out how to "fix" W10.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Anyone else being plagued by this?
Haven't seen this.
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I haven't seen the icons get rearranged, but I HAVE seen the desktop and taskbar refresh themselves sometimes. It's as if Explorer (the shell) is being rebooted.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I've seen that as well. I've been blaming our Symantec AV though. (Mostly because I like blaming everything on that)
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You realise with w10 you're supposed to use uwp-metro with big ass baby blocks
do you know how hard ms worked to give you that?
and then gave it to you for free?
show some appreciation and do what nads want's you to do:
1. just shut up and suck up whatever we give you as-is,
2. why? because after examining all of your data only we know what's best for you
3. and just because.
please avoid the old efficient desktop with icons and such like things they way you like them
the desktop and pretty much all customisation likely to be removed in future updates ... oh wait, you say only in some versions, isn't there supposed to be only one windows 10? good on ya ms, remove the confusion, by replacing it with even less understood product.
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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).
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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.
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