Desktop icon alignment

[inkleputDEL]

I want my desktop icons where I put them. I have it set to "Show Desktop
Icons," not finding another alternative. This has been letting me put
them anywhere I want them and making them stay there. (I also use a
desktop save utility.)

But recently there has been a sort of "horizontal snap to grid" in effect,
which moves them a little bit right from where I set them on a vertical
line that slants slightly down to the right. Anybody ever experience this
before? Solution?


JimL

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I want my desktop icons where I put them. I have it set to "Show Desktop
Icons," not finding another alternative. This has been letting me put
them anywhere I want them and making them stay there. (I also use a
desktop save utility.)

But recently there has been a sort of "horizontal snap to grid" in effect,
which moves them a little bit right from where I set them on a vertical
line that slants slightly down to the right. Anybody ever experience this
before? Solution?


JimL

Right click the destop and see if Keep Aligned is clicked.

 

[inkleputDEL]

In <LSpyh.3290$yH3.1077@trndny07>, on 02/07/07
at 07:36 PM, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <[email protected]> said:

Right click the destop and see if Keep Aligned is clicked.

I can find no such option to click.

JimL

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[JD]

In <LSpyh.3290$yH3.1077@trndny07>, on 02/07/07
at 07:36 PM, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <[email protected]> said:





I can find no such option to click.

JimL

Right mouse click anywhere on a blank spot on your desktop. Select
Arrange Icons By and uncheck Align to Grid.

 

[inkleputDEL]

In <[email protected]>, on 02/08/07
at 11:26 AM, JD <[email protected]> said:

Right mouse click anywhere on a blank spot on your desktop. Select
Arrange Icons By and uncheck Align to Grid.

Thanks. I unchecked Align To Grid the first day I installed and it is
still unchecked. And as I said, this is horizontal only and at a slant.
No matter where I put an icon, it jumps to the right, always to the right,
a little bit, not as much as you would usually get from default grid
alignment. And if I do several down the left side of the screen each goes
a very little to the right of the last one unless my positioning gets
beyond a certain point. In that respect it acts like grid align.

JimL

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[JD]

In <[email protected]>, on 02/08/07
at 11:26 AM, JD <[email protected]> said:





Thanks. I unchecked Align To Grid the first day I installed and it is
still unchecked. And as I said, this is horizontal only and at a slant.
No matter where I put an icon, it jumps to the right, always to the right,
a little bit, not as much as you would usually get from default grid
alignment. And if I do several down the left side of the screen each goes
a very little to the right of the last one unless my positioning gets
beyond a certain point. In that respect it acts like grid align.

JimL

It sounds like a display problem but I don't know what. Sorry.

 

[Sharon F]

And if I do several down the left side of the screen each goes
a very little to the right of the last one unless my positioning gets
beyond a certain point. In that respect it acts like grid align.

Check your monitor settings. Specifically the one that controls the
vertical orientation of the outside edges. It sounds like you have
something like this going on to the left: \ or even this (
You need to use those controls and straighten to this: |

These are not the settings in Windows. These are the settings you bring up
by pressing various buttons on the monitor itself.