Win98- Why does my desktop icons rearrange everytime i reboot?

[JEDI]

Win98 crashed (again). but this time everytime i reboot, my desktop icons rearrange itself.

i've rebooted like 5 times already.

norton anti-virus says there are no viruses. i've cleaned spyware w/adaware. yet the icons still rearrange itself.

WHY?

 

[stevewm]

desktop icon positions are only saved if you do a clean shutdown or Restart.

If your machine crashes and you just hit the reset button it reverts to the last arrangement that was successfully saved.

 

[skeedo]

Might want to try using an OS that isn't 6 years old too

 

[Harvey]

Place your cursor anywher on the desktop that isn't over an icon, right click, and under Arrange Icons, make sure Auto Arrange is not checked.

Originally posted by: skeedo
Might want to try using an OS that isn't 6 years old too

There are lots of good reasons for staying with Win 98 SE. I still use it because I have a critical legacy app that requires real DOS, not an emulator. Personally, I also like it better because I can fix more stuff "under the hood" in places XP tries to hide, and it does everything I need. I've had a legal copy of XP Pro for over a year, and I'm in no hurry to install it.

Most important, if your stuck with an older machine (500 MHz, 256 MB RAM. 8 GB HD), XP is a dog that just won't hunt, but Win 98 will keep working.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: skeedo
Might want to try using an OS that isn't 6 years old too

i can't ghost w/WinXP. i need to create a different image for every different mobo that I have. (my family uses a mix of athlon + intel desktops, not to mention different brands of laptops.)

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: stevewm
desktop icon positions are only saved if you do a clean shutdown or Restart.

If your machine crashes and you just hit the reset button it reverts to the last arrangement that was successfully saved.

it was shut down successfully the last 5 times and autoarrange is not checked. yet the icons keep moving around.

still puzzled...

 

[subtledreamer]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: stevewm
desktop icon positions are only saved if you do a clean shutdown or Restart.

If your machine crashes and you just hit the reset button it reverts to the last arrangement that was successfully saved.

it was shut down successfully the last 5 times and autoarrange is not checked. yet the icons keep moving around.

still puzzled...

my first post. hope it'll be helpful.

if you don't already have x-setup (its a nifty tweaking prog) installed, try it out and go to this page in the picture link: http://files.subtledream.com/forum/x-setup.gif

check it, restart/log off(?), and see it does the trick.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: skeedo
Might want to try using an OS that isn't 6 years old too

i can't ghost w/WinXP. i need to create a different image for every different mobo that I have. (my family uses a mix of athlon + intel desktops, not to mention different brands of laptops.)

errr. why can't you ghost with winxp? becuase your copy of ghost is out of date or because you're using the OS on multiple computers and can't get around the activation with windows xp?

i know you CAN ghost with it because i've used ghost to move from hdd to hdd in the past.

done a virus scan lately?

 

[skeedo]

ever heard of 2k?

 

[MindfuLLOne]

don't know, but here's a program you can use in the mean time to help
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4125.html

 

[techwanabe]

It does depend on which version of Ghost you have - I was using Ghost 2000 and it would not image XP, but it would image NT or 2000 which we did routinely. That may be her issue.

 

[Link19]

Originally posted by: skeedo
Might want to try using an OS that isn't 6 years old too

AMEN to that statement. In fact, you might want to try using an OS that at least is a quality OS based on real 32-bit coding like Windows 2000/XP or Linux. Windows 98/ME are junky operating systems that ought to be put to death by now especially for any system with a 1GHz or faster CPU and 128MB or more RAM.

 

[redbeard1]

A friend of mine had system that did that same thing to him for a long time. I don't remember what finally fixed it unfortunately. This link talks about something to try. You can safely delete this file and it will be recreated.

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