How to keep windows desktop icons in place
Hi,
I am wondering if there is some known app or method to tell Windows (7 and 8) to just keep desktop icons in place, regardless of screen resolution?
For example, I often work remotely on my machine and since remote client screen hardly matches my resolution (2560 x 1440 pixels), icons on desktop get rearranged every time I use RDP. Also, I have local KVM switch to connect some test machine from time to time and it happens KVM hicups and whoups... icons are again all grouped on left side of screen.
VERY annoying!
Maybe some ATI (I have ATI 630GT and V4800 graphics cards, 2 computers) control panel option or a driver settings or something?
Anybody?
I am wondering if there is some known app or method to tell Windows (7 and 8) to just keep desktop icons in place, regardless of screen resolution?
For example, I often work remotely on my machine and since remote client screen hardly matches my resolution (2560 x 1440 pixels), icons on desktop get rearranged every time I use RDP. Also, I have local KVM switch to connect some test machine from time to time and it happens KVM hicups and whoups... icons are again all grouped on left side of screen.
VERY annoying!
Maybe some ATI (I have ATI 630GT and V4800 graphics cards, 2 computers) control panel option or a driver settings or something?
Anybody?
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Did not get the solution for my problem, since I am looking for resolving Remote Desktop icon-auto-rearange problem, so I split the points with B grade. Thank you anyway.
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What I see is on Server 2008, for example, which I connect to remotely many times from different computers with different screen resolutions, that it somehow remembers icons layout for specific resolution. I can even use my Android phone to connect, all icons get reordered....but when I connect again from my desktop comp, all icons are back in right place.
Without any additional 3-rd party programs.
On newer 2008R2 and especially on 2012 and 2012R2 servers, this functionality is NOT present. So I am looking for Windows native resolution for this, be it via registry, some feature or setting, which might be there, if it was in older 2008 server.