Desk top icons in disarray on start up 1

[euston]

Every now and again, the icons on my desk top become rearranged on starting the system. I move everything back to where it was and it's OK for a while but eventually it happens again. I can discern no pattern of occurrence.

This is a nuisance and I wondered if anyone can suggest a cure or a likely cause. The system is fairly solid otherwise.

 

[DirtDawg]

It may be a corrupt profile, try and just recreate the users profile.

1. login as local admin.
2. rename the bad profile to somthing
3. log in as that user again, profile recreate
4. move needed folders only desktop, favorites, documents so forth

Should be ok

 

[bcastner]

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...Tips/Customization/SaveDesktopIconLayout.html

Kelly Therit notes: "In Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP you can lock down the position of the Desktop icons using a couple of files from the MS Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit. Download Layout.dll here. ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/wsources/0598/layout.zip

Place it here: C:\Winnt\System32 then double click the Layout.reg file. You will now have a new right click option.

 

[euston]

A belated thank you for giving the time and knowledge to my problem. I have to report that the URL ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/wsources/0598/layout.zip seems to be no longer available.

I found something similar(?) at

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip

and downloaded it for future reference.

The best solution appears to be WinTidy 2.0 which is available for download at $5.97 from PCMag on the following URL: -

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1656299,00.asp

I would not have tracked this down without the replies from BCastner so thank you.

Thank you also to Hunnicutt for the other suggestion which is a very good one but WinTidy really works (so I don't need to make a new user profile, phew!) and so I can enthusiastically recommend WinTidy to solve the desk top disarray problem.

Kisses,

 

[bcastner]

I apologize for the no longer working link.
layout.dll:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1590009,00.asp

I like WinTidy as well.

Best Holiday wishes,
Bill Castner

 

[euston]

Bill, I use ATI Hydravision for a dual display screen setup. I wonder if that might be the cause of the original problem.

WinTidy allows me to use screen 2 for desk top icons in addition to screen 1.