Desktop icons suddenly shifted to left side

[Frank McCormick]

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:47:51 -0700
"David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been accumulating desktop icons for a while, arranging them in 
> precise locations on my desktop.  This has worked fine for quite a 
> while, but just this morning something happened at some point (I
> didn't see it happen) that made all the icons "smoosh" over to the
> left, leaving about the right third of the screen uncovered by
> icons.  Several of them were also moved vertically, but to a large
> extent they were all just moved to the left.  Now they are all
> neatly arranged in rows and columns (not the way I wanted them),
> although oddly the position in the very top left corner is empty.
> 
> Any ideas what might cause this?


  Did you accidentally right click on the desktop and click on "keep
aligned"...that would do it. If you did unselect it and start moving
the icons back to where you want them.


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Frank  <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
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