To see or change this option, right-click on an empty space of your desktop, and move the mouse pointer to highlight the View item on the shortcut menu. If Windows does not let you rearrange the icons as you want, then most probably the Auto-arrange icons option is turned on. However, before starting to use Icon Shepherd, you may want to check a few things first. (Icon Shepherd is free for the private, home use on one computer.)

Download Icon Shepherd now or read more about it. When Windows messes up your icons, you can use Icon Shepherd to restore the previously saved layouts, and return the icons to their proper places with one click. If Windows keeps moving the desktop icons, you may find our software Icon Shepherd of use: it memorizes the positions of the icons and keeps track of them when they are moved around, creating snapshots of the icon positions after each change. All is well for a while, then one morning you log in to your computer and suddenly all icons are messed up. You have quite a few icons on your Windows desktop, and you have spent quite some time painstakingly arranging them in the way that makes sense to you. Password-protect and hide personal files and folders with Folder Guard for Windows 11,10,8.

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