Gadgets rearrange on resolution change

[Justin Johnson]

Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit the
screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The problem arises
when I change the resolution back to my native resolution, the gadgets don't
move back to their original positions; I'm forced to rearrange them myself.
Does anyone have an idea on how to change this behavior?

 

[Adam Albright]

Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit the
screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The problem arises
when I change the resolution back to my native resolution, the gadgets don't
move back to their original positions; I'm forced to rearrange them myself.
Does anyone have an idea on how to change this behavior?

This is a long running and unfixed bug in Windows that anytime you
change resolution whatever is on the desktop gets scrambled.
Apparently Windows is too dumb to remember where things were. I've
seen the gadgets get rearranged even without changing resolution at
boot.

This is part is due to the estimated 50 millions lines of code that
makes up Vista. NOBODY, not even the software engineers that wrote
Vista know what all of them do or how they interact with each other.
The result is what you see. Vista doing goofy things for no good
reason.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit
the screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The
problem arises when I change the resolution back to my native
resolution, the gadgets don't move back to their original positions; I'm
forced to rearrange them myself. Does anyone have an idea on how to
change this behavior?

Nope, sorry, it's always done that. I am also mystified as to why there
has never been a "Lock this icon in place" facility so you can for
example always have your mail icon in the same place even during auto
arrange, some things just don't need to be changed.

 

[Justin Johnson]

This is interesting because my chat buddy list will reposition to it's
original position, any idea why that is?

 

[Adam Albright]

This is interesting because my chat buddy list will reposition to it's
original position, any idea why that is?

No idea. I was referring to icon arrangement on the desktop. For some
odd reason Windows would always reset icons and ignore any assortment
you made every time you switch resolutions. That can get annoying if
you happen to have 50 or more icons sorted as you like them. :-(