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Windows 10 loves to re-arrange icons so I need a program to revert this

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I'm not sure how many people encounter this problem often, but sometimes certain actions will cause Windows 10 to take all your desktop icons and shove them to the left of the screen making me completely reorganize them all over again. I'm looking for a program that saves the positions of the icons and can revert them back to what positions they were saved in for when this happens to me again. I did a google search but a lot of the programs I found kinda looked sketchy so I was wondering if anyone here knows one that they would recommend.

 

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3 minutes ago, Railgun said:

I'm not sure how many people encounter this problem often, but sometimes certain actions will cause Windows 10 to take all your desktop icons and shove them to the left of the screen making me completely reorganize them all over again. I'm looking for a program that saves the positions of the icons and can revert them back to what positions they were saved in for when this happens to me again. I did a google search but a lot of the programs I found kinda looked sketchy so I was wondering if anyone here knows one that they would recommend.

 

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turn off Auto Arrange ? 

 

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1) Win+R

2) "regedit"

3) [Enter]

4) Navigate to 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop
 

5) File-->Export

6) Current branch

7) Save to desktop

--Now you will have an icon on your desktop that you can double-click whenever you need to rearrange your icons to the saved state

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use rainmeter :)

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2 hours ago, Enderman said:

use rainmeter :)

How do I get Rainmeter to save desktop icons?

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3 hours ago, DXMember said:

1) Win+R

2) "regedit"

3) [Enter]

4) Navigate to 


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop


 

5) File-->Export

6) Current branch

7) Save to desktop

--Now you will have an icon on your desktop that you can double-click whenever you need to rearrange your icons to the saved state

This didn't change anything. It only told me that something was added to the registry.

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1 minute ago, Railgun said:

This didn't change anything. It only told me that something was added to the registry.

re-arrange the icons and try again

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Just now, DXMember said:

re-arrange the icons and try again

I did...

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This is one of many DisplayFusion features. You can set multiple profiles, save edits to them and load them whenever you want.

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