right click on the desktop to reveal pop-up and click on "arrange icons"

click on arrange icons either by name, size, type.

right click again

click on active desktop to reveal pop-up and click on update now.

try that...it should do the trick.

steve
FNE Lab


At 02:28 PM 4/23/04 , you wrote:
>Can anyone help us? We have been trying to arrange our desktop icons
>on the PC's and cannot get them to stay put. On a few computers they
>seem to stay fine, but on the majority of them we get them set the
>way we want, but the next time the computer comes on they have
>snapped back to where the computer wants them to be. We turned off
>FoolProof before moving them. We unchecked "auto arrange", we have
>tried "line up icons" after we finish, tried unchecking the FoolProof
>option "don't save desktop changes on exit", everything we can think
>of. We don't know why some computers keep the arrangement and others
>don't. We have tried the built-in "help" and can't figure it out. Any
>ideas on how we can set up the desktop to look the way WE want it to
>and keep it that way? Thanks!
>--
>Jodie Hale
>Lindbergh Computer Lab
>472-6258
>
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