Desktop Icons

[kitty ♥]

Hi, I have noticed that apon locking and unlocking my computer, restarting or signing out. My desktop icons move around my desktop. I understand wallpaper engine is still beta and bugs happen. Does anyone have a fix? Thanks.

[Mystix]

I've not had this problem with Wallpaper Engine. Desktop icons being moved around could sometimes happen when resolution settings change.

Anyways, maybe you can try a utility that can save the icon positions and restore them back to positions when you want.

Perhaps try Iconoid. It's a nice little free utility that you can have automatically hide the desktop icons, the taskbar and mouse-pointer (you can set it to autohide those items after a few seconds of inactivity on the desktop).

One of the other features it has is when you right-click on it (from your Windows Tray), you have an option to "Save Icon Positions", so it will remember the current positions of all of your desktop icons, then an options to "Restored Icon Positions", which will put them back into the place of when you last did the save.

I use it and it seems to work good with Wallpaper Engine.

You can get it at:
http://www.sillysot.com/

[FAN1028]

I have same problem too. Every time refresh desktop, the icons will randomly rearrange. How can we fix it?

[Biohazard]

The only thing Wallpaper Engine does to the icon window is setting the opacity, maybe try setting the opacity to 100% again. If you do that, Wallpaper Engine will not touch the icons in any way.

[kitty ♥]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

The only thing Wallpaper Engine does to the icon window is setting the opacity, maybe try setting the opacity to 100% again. If you do that, Wallpaper Engine will not touch the icons in any way.

I have always had it at 100%. But it seems to have been fixed sometime between when I asked the question and now