Any Cure Yet for Desktop Icons Moving, Changing, Resizing themselves?

Hi there, first post. I registered because 1.) I solved my particular issue with rearranging icons and 2.) it's been a hella transition from Win7 and this forum has been an immense help in coming to terms with Win10, so 3.) I thought I could contribute in return.

In my situation, the icons rearranged when I use Custom Scaling, especially the one set in the Advanced scaling settings section. I solved my issue by unticking the option Let Windows try to fix apps so they're not blurry.

I observed that when custom scaling is set, some resizing happens before during login just before the desktop shows up. I thought that how Win10 adjusts the available canvas that resets the icons. There weren't any other control I could experiment within the custom scaling except the 'blurry fix', so I thought to give it a go and was pretty pleased it actually worked.

lang said:

Hi there, first post. I registered because 1.) I solved my particular issue with rearranging icons and 2.) it's been a hella transition from Win7 and this forum has been an immense help in coming to terms with Win10, so 3.) I thought I could contribute in return.

In my situation, the icons rearranged when I use Custom Scaling, especially the one set in the Advanced scaling settings section. I solved my issue by unticking the option Let Windows try to fix apps so they're not blurry.

I observed that when custom scaling is set, some resizing happens before during login just before the desktop shows up. I thought that how Win10 adjusts the available canvas that resets the icons. There weren't any other control I could experiment within the custom scaling except the 'blurry fix', so I thought to give it a go and was pretty pleased it actually worked.

Didn't work, have tried a lot of solutions and still these icons move about after a restart. Is MS even working on finding why this is doing it? I have the three 'ticks' "View - auto, View - align, & Show - desktop (icons). Surely there is a common denominator to 'reset'? My next attempt is to look for a corrupt windows file with sfc, dism scanhealth, dism restore health, sfc (again), and finally a chkdsk.

Will see if this fixes it but am sure when it first started moving them all around I tried this. I'll post back (hope it is a corrupt file, nothing new has been added ie programs).


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mega10user said:

Didn't work, have tried a lot of solutions and still these icons move about after a restart. Is MS even working on finding why this is doing it? I have the three 'ticks' "View - auto, View - align, & Show - desktop (icons). Surely there is a common denominator to 'reset'? My next attempt is to look for a corrupt windows file with sfc, dism scanhealth, dism restore health, sfc (again), and finally a chkdsk.

Will see if this fixes it but am sure when it first started moving them all around I tried this. I'll post back (hope it is a corrupt file, nothing new has been added ie programs).


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In a word, NO! MS is not working on this issue...

Callender said:

I don't think it's an MS issue. For me choosing the wrong settings below causes the problem. I just tested again by changing a few of the settings and sure enough icons went haywire. Undid the changes and rebooted and all is well.

The only thing is that I cannot suggest what the correct settings should be. Also in the past I've installed third party software which has changed screen resolution or some other display settings when launched resulting in the same problem. So i don't use those types of softwares.

Hadn't installed anything, only installed MS win updates. Between .net, A/V (windows Security) and Windows update updates, that is all. I do not think it is anything else BUT MS provided software.


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djbillyd said:

In a word, NO! MS is not working on this issue...

An answer to your note, no cure yet. Got inturrupted in my attampt and hadn't gotten back to trying to fix it. Wouldn't surprise me one bit that this 'bug' is meant to annoy so that older systems are turned over to newer hardware/Win 11.....


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