ICONS REARRANGED

[bygeek]

I have a client running win2k who says every day her desktop icaon are rearranged. No viruses present. Any ideas?

 

[MontrealSoft]

Right click on your desktop, "arrange icons", and uncheck "auto arrange".

Martin

 

[bygeek]

What would cause them to "auto-arrange" overnight when nothing has changed on the system?

 

[MontrealSoft]

System is up all night?

 

[bygeek]

I'm not trying to be difficult, but what difference does it make? The auto-arrange feature should only kick in when an icon is either added to or deleted from the desktop, neither of which is happenning regardless of whether the machine is on or not.

 

[MontrealSoft]

But it also happen if you move or rename them. They appear alphabetiquely... Is there any change on morning, new or less icons?

 

[bygeek]

Nothing is being moved or renamed, and there are no more or fewer icons.

 

[W2kuser]

I also have this problem with Windows 2000 Pro.

Everytime I boot up the icons have been rearranged by auto-arrange, even when it isn't clicked on (ticked).

It's really frustrating if you've got a lot of icons on there. Finding things becomes a hassle.

I can't find a solution to it either, although there are small shareware programs around that'll fix it if you click "restore", but this is a hassle too.

If anyone has a good answer I'd like to know.

 

[2know]

W2kuser,

Did you ever figure out this problem???

I have one W2K machine with this same problem. The user is not technical and does not add or remove programs.

He puts the icons that he uses the most on the left side of the desktop and the ones he rarely uses on the right side of the desktop.

Some mornings he will come in and find ALL icons on the left side as if someone "auto arranged" them.

 

[purefreshair]

Is the PC on a network domain? We recently switched from a workgroup network to a domain network. I used the copy profile untility in control panel to convert everyone. Then, when I'd log as the user to test their PC, all of their icons were on the left side of the screen. I had to make the user an administrator on the PC in order for the icons to stay. I just wondered if this was related to your issue or not.

 

[bcastner]

Use the old layout.dll from the NT reskit:

http://home.epix.net/~ttaylor/icon_restore.html

 

[bcastner]

If layout.dll is not your cup of tea (it works great by the way and is pure MS product), then create fix_icons.reg by cutting and pasting the below, or use regedit to make a new registry key:

---- Start COPY below this line ----
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSaveSettings"=hex:00,00,00,00
---- End COPY above this line ----