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I doubt it's because of some virus.. most likely a shitty update from Microsoft that wouldn't suprise me if true
Hi, this is an issue that has plagued many people (desktop icons being suddenly rearranged + explorer folder view settings not saved) through generations of Windows. It seems no one fix suits all- just a few.
Something is changed to make these symptoms appear, so what?
Being curious, and hoping this doesn't affect me, I tried a simple test. This shows that the control of both the desktop icon auto-arrangement and explorer's folder view settings are held in a common registry location. That might explain why problems in both are observed together.
HKU\S-1-5-21-1874168061-3408090847-1495916866-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{CEBFF5CD-ACE2-4F4F-9178-9926F41749EA}\Count\Q:\Ertvfgel Gbbyf\Ertfubg\Ertfubg 1-9 Havpbqr\Ertfubg-k86-Havpbqr.rkr:
This one also changes when the auto-arrange setting is changed.
HKU\S-1-5-21-1874168061-3408090847-1495916866-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{CEBFF5CD-ACE2-4F4F-9178-9926F41749EA}\Count\HRZR_PGYFRFFVBA:
(The string S-1-5-21-1874168061-3408090847-1495916866-1001 may well be different on a different PC).
Now, if someone who is experiencing both problems would export these keys and upload them, I may be able to see if merging these recreates the problem (which I don't have). Because it's been such a persistent problem, I'm curious..:)
If the symptoms are recreated, then it's a matter of analysing the cause. That could be hard.
It's not a virus. This happened on a computer that has never been on the internet browsing, nor had any email, nor any suspect programs loaded into it. Clean install on a 1Tb Hard Drive. Shut down and restart and all the icons are now on the left.