However, for Icon Shepherd to work as expected, you will have to make sure that Auto arrange icons option is enabled for your desktop. Auto Arrange settings arranged all the icons on their own.

The icons rearrange themselves based on the resolution. In this post, we will show you how you can keep desktop icons from moving when undocking your Windows device.

My desktop back then didn't have as many files—it was pretty much all applications—and every time I wanted to add a new one, something had to go. The perfect border of icons was not to be broken.

On that menu, you will find check boxes labeled "Auto arrange icons" and "Align icons to grid." By default in Windows 11, the selection to automatically arrange the icons is enabled.

This little utility allows you to organize the stuff on your desktop by creating little boxes (called fences) and dragging icons and files into them. You can then resize and rearrange the boxes.

If our Win98SE systems crash, after reboot, bloody "Auto arrange" is switched on at the desktop, so all our painstakingly arranged icons end up jumbled at the LHS.

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