In THIS WinXP system, when I move desktop icons slightly, it's like they are on elastic bands, and they snap back into place. In another similar WinXP system of mine on a different computer, the icons stay put in any higgeldy-piggeldy position I drag them. The settings on the desktop menu for 'Arrange icons by...' are identical for the two WinXP systems. How might I fix the faulty (the latter) one ? Basty
Dunno - weird. I take it they are both set to "align to grid". Silly question maybe but if your restart the misbehaving computer does this help?
Just wondering if somehow the computer isn't picking up the setting.Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks
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My system appears to work like yours, and depends on how far is
slightly or higgeldy-piggeldy position (??)
'slighty' - there is not much distance between one grid node and another. But it is obvious when in one PC the icons do not 'line up' and in another they do so rigorously. By the way, rebooting does NOT help.
Basty
Right click your desktop screen. point to the top line in the menu and scroll down to "Auto arrange icons" in the followup menu. Remove the tick mark from here and you can place icons wherever you ant on the desktop.
I'm after the opposite effect - I do not want to be able to place them anywhere. I want them to 'snap to grid'. Basty
Sounds rather like a slight glitch in Windows. If it only happened fairly recently and you have an idea when it happened, it might be a case of using System Restore. This does not lose your own files (as you probably know). Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks
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