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Unmovable icons

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by smlandau

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I have a Windos 2000 PC that will not let me move the desktop icons. They bounce back to their original positions. New ones can be added, but they too will not move. Auto arrange is turned off and the registry keys for the desktop appear to be correct. It's as if the auto arrange is still turned on. This happens under multiple Windows profiles. Any ideas?

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by borginva

I have the same problem. Windows 2000 is a poor excuse for an OS.
Try doing what you need to under the ADMIN login of that local system and see if it helps. If you have the same icon (that you want shown on the desktop) in several profile's desktopfolder, that would cause a little problem in my experiance. Try just keeping one icon in the desktop folder of the ALL USERS profile and see if that helps.

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