Does anybody know of a way (in Windows 7) to lock/pin the desktop icons in place once you have arranged them?
My desktop isn't exactly cluttered, I think, there are at any given moment some 45-50. For the sake of easy navigation I try to keep the number to a minimum.
When I have moved the icons around so that they are grouped into categories (roughly) and have their fixed places, it's easy to find what I'm looking for, and one gets used to it, like the layout of ones apartment for example. The desktop 'feels like home' to put it simply, plus it looks good.
Every once in a while upon boot they are moved to the left side of the screen, not sorted alphabetically (which, at least, would have been some help) but in completely random order so it takes unnecessarily long to find what youre looking for.
I would understand it, and accept it, if it ocurred only after I, say, change the resolution, but it happens randomly, 'unprovoked'.
Not a big problem, true, but kind of a drag, so if anybody knows how to pin/lock the icons in place I'd be very grateful to know how.
Best Answer
I presume you have unchecked "auto arrange icons"? You could also uncheck "align icons to grid".
Some clean up tools CCleaner (for example) can make Windows forget settings like these. Do you have any tools which be might doing it?
If all else fails, here is a link to howtogeek- vista/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout.