Save windows desktop icon layout

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Have you right clicked on your desktop and clicked on View and made sure that Auto arrange icons is not checked? How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Horace Wiggins. Hi UB. Once they are where you want them, right click an empty area to choose Refresh and this should remember their position.

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Thankfully there are many ways by which you can save desktop icons layout and instantly restore it as and when needed. Before you do below given steps, make sure you place all the icons in your preferred places. You can drag and drop the icons on the locations you want to adjust them.

See the Screenshot. Once you placed your icons to the places where you want them. Now, it is the time to save the layout so that these could not get shuffled again. Windows gives permission to themes to helter-skelter with the desktop icons by default. If your theme is responsible for doing this then you can follow below steps to disable and prevent themes from changing icons position.

Restart your pc to confirm if the icons are rearranging or not. If the window is doing the same thing again then proceed to the next step. IconCache is a database file created to store icon copies into the pc. In any case, this file gets corrupted then you should rebuild it.

To do it, follow the steps below. Check for the icon errors after the restart. You can try other methods if the problem does not get sorted. If the icons are still getting rearranged by default then you should try replacing the registry key with the key given below. The whole process of Registry key modification is given below:.

Check our below list of hand picked third party utility for this purpose,. This is one of the most effective software which saves the desktop icon layout and allows us to restore them when our system shuffles them.