You can try and use an old utility from PC-Magazine: WinTidy, which saves the position of each icon on the desktop and can rearrange them back if they move. Download it from: Download WinTidy Do not try to get it from the PC-Magazine website, as they want you to register and they ask you for money to do it ! I wonder why, given that this is an old freeware, and I can remember that once downloading it was for free.