You have to arrange them AFTER turning those two offĭalchina, what are the better options? 'Cause I've got ALL the important icons on the desktop because the #$%^&*( Start button is so UTTERLY unproductive. Make sure both auto arrange and align to grid are UNchecked. This HAS to be something stupid.Right click an open area of the desktop. Unfortunately, the LARGE icons are ugly, and the small ones are unreadable! I set it back to medium and rebooted - they CHANGED. I changed the size to small, rebooted, they stayed in place. Organized icons, rebooted, everything stayed in place. I've even tried TWO of the supposed tools that save your icon placement and restore it if it changes. Which means I'm MISSING something obvious and stupid. It's a BRAND NEW build, so yes, the AMD 5700XT has the current drivers.

I've even deleted the icon.db file from Appdata>Roaming.

I've hit 'Refresh' every time I've configured the desktop the way I want. I've found the desktop Icon settings screen and turned OFF the 'let themes change desktop icons'. Turn it back on and I get the normal layout but they're still rearranged. With 'Auto arrange icons' turned off I get a square block of rearranged icons in the corner. Yes, I've checked and unchecked the auto arrange icons and align icons to grid in every combination I can find (all 4). I've looked at a dozen topics on keeping the desktop icons in place between boots. I don't remember having this problem for YEARS on the old system, but I've got it now!

Desktopok not a virus avast