ColR1948 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 I was on my PC and went to do something else, on returning after about 2 hours the icons were scattered about all over the screen plus the task bar was on the side not the bottom. I sorted it all out and did a virus and malware scan but nothing found, I wondered what had caused it to happen, any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbreak754 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Hi Col, I have noticed this happen occasionally (but very rarely) when usually a badly constructed/configured 3rd party piece of software (i.e. not the OS) has automatically updated in the background and caused the screen to refresh. A tool I use to help restore the desktop icons to their original state is Icon Shepard - see HERE for info. You can use it to find out when the icons were scrambled (indicated by the example in the second image on the webpage) and then use this to look in the Windows Event logs to try and ID the misbehaving software.... Regards Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Again Bri you come with an answer, cheers my mate. Col. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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