An Insignificant But Annoying Issue

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Greetings All

I’m not sure how long I’ve been dealing with this, so I don’t know if it surfaced with March updates or before, but I’m pretty sure before, but not more than a couple weeks ago.  One of my program’s is Cyberlink’s Power DVD22.  It’s desktop icon, and only that icon, won’t stay put.  Every time I log in, the icon has moved to the lower left-hand corner of my desktop.  I have the exact same software on my WIN 11 laptop, and its icon stays neatly in its proper place.  Not a big deal, but I’m one of those a place for everything, and everything in its place type of guys.  I would like for it to stay put.  As always, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Casey H.

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Right-click on the Desktop and select View.

Check “Align icons to grid”

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Casey H

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You should also ensure none of the Sort by options are checked.

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Casey H

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Desktop already arranged as suggested.  I’ve also tried deleting the shortcut and creating a new one.  No joy.  This is the only icon that misbehaves.  All of the others stay in their proper places.

Casey

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To quote from n0ads: “Jamie O’Connell’s Desktop Restore add-in for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 & 10 that allows you to save/restore your Desktop icons/layout in case any of my Desktop icons change after a Windows/3rd part program update”. I’ve used this myself for many years, and it just works.

Zig

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Casey H

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I had a similar issue some time ago on my Windows 10 system.
I found this at the time:
https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/158435-one-desktop-icon-moving-after-reboot-installation-version-2004-a.html

After reading the 13 Jun 2020 conversations I found that with “Align icons to grid” ticked if I right click on the desktop and Refresh the display the icon moves.
With “Align icons to grid” unticked the icon does not move.
So I have been leaving “Align icons to grid” unticked most of the time – I just tick it when I need to tidy up the desktop layout and then untick it again.

I can now see that there is a later post dated 14 Oct 2020. I just tried this suggestion and it seems to work for me, so I can now leave “Align icons to grid” ticked.

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I’ve tried both.  The icon moves in both situations.  Since it’s only the one icon that won’t stay put, I’m presuming that it’s somehow peculiar to its properties.  It’s really not a big deal, just a bit annoying.  Perhaps it will resolve itself with the next update to Power DVD.

Casey

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Finally figured it out. I’m not sure why this one works the way it does, but creating the shortcut from the start menu creates a shortcut to the shortcut in the Program Data folder rather than to the executable in the Program Files folder.  Creating a shortcut pointing to Program Files fixed the problem.  This is curious, because this program has been on my computer for a couple of years, and the issue has only surfaced recently.  Additionally, I have exactly the same program on my Windows 11 (perhaps that’s the difference) laptop, and there is no issue there.  Anyway, thanks for the inputs.

Casey

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