Annoying rearrangement of desktop icons on display resize

[Mitch Gallant]

WinXP pro sp2
When I resize the desktop resolution, for testing purposes of video issues,
all the desktop icons are zapped over to the left size! This is extremely
annoying with a lot of desktop icons.

(1) Is there a way to prevent this??
(2) With multi users on XP Pro, are the video resolution settings
user-specific? (so if I change the resolution on a "test" user, that won't
affect the video resolution on my main account??

- Mitch

 

[steam3801]

WinXP pro sp2
When I resize the desktop resolution, for testing purposes of video issues,
all the desktop icons are zapped over to the left size! This is extremely
annoying with a lot of desktop icons.

(1) Is there a way to prevent this??

No. When you alter resolution, Windows needs to re-arrange the icons
to fit on the larger resolution screen. When you change it back, it
doesn't need to re-arrange, so it doesn't.

Compensatory alternative : set icons to auto arrange

(2) With multi users on XP Pro, are the video resolution settings
user-specific? (so if I change the resolution on a "test" user, that won't
affect the video resolution on my main account??

Not user specific. Changing resolution effectively (sort of, anyway)
changes the settings in the monitor. Consequently, it doesn't matter
who the user is.