Gadgets rearrange on resolution change

Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit the
screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The problem arises
when I change the resolution back to my native resolution, the gadgets don't
move back to their original positions; I'm forced to rearrange them myself.
Does anyone have an idea on how to change this behavior?

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--Justin Johnson

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:46:41 -0500, "Justin Johnson"
<> wrote:

>Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit the
>screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The problem arises
>when I change the resolution back to my native resolution, the gadgets don't
>move back to their original positions; I'm forced to rearrange them myself.
>Does anyone have an idea on how to change this behavior?

This is a long running and unfixed bug in Windows that anytime you
change resolution whatever is on the desktop gets scrambled.
Apparently Windows is too dumb to remember where things were. I've
seen the gadgets get rearranged even without changing resolution at
boot.

This is part is due to the estimated 50 millions lines of code that
makes up Vista. NOBODY, not even the software engineers that wrote
Vista know what all of them do or how they interact with each other.
The result is what you see. Vista doing goofy things for no good
reason.

Justin Johnson wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit
> the screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The
> problem arises when I change the resolution back to my native
> resolution, the gadgets don't move back to their original positions; I'm
> forced to rearrange them myself. Does anyone have an idea on how to
> change this behavior?
>


Nope, sorry, it's always done that. I am also mystified as to why there
has never been a "Lock this icon in place" facility so you can for
example always have your mail icon in the same place even during auto
arrange, some things just don't need to be changed.

This is interesting because my chat buddy list will reposition to it's
original position, any idea why that is?

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--Justin Johnson
"Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:46:41 -0500, "Justin Johnson"
> <> wrote:
>
>>Hi, I'm having a problem where my gadgets on my desktop get moved to fit
>>the
>>screen when the resolution changes (i.e. playing a game). The problem
>>arises
>>when I change the resolution back to my native resolution, the gadgets
>>don't
>>move back to their original positions; I'm forced to rearrange them
>>myself.
>>Does anyone have an idea on how to change this behavior?
>
> This is a long running and unfixed bug in Windows that anytime you
> change resolution whatever is on the desktop gets scrambled.
> Apparently Windows is too dumb to remember where things were. I've
> seen the gadgets get rearranged even without changing resolution at
> boot.
>
> This is part is due to the estimated 50 millions lines of code that
> makes up Vista. NOBODY, not even the software engineers that wrote
> Vista know what all of them do or how they interact with each other.
> The result is what you see. Vista doing goofy things for no good
> reason.
>

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:39:16 -0500, "Justin Johnson"
<> wrote:

>This is interesting because my chat buddy list will reposition to it's
>original position, any idea why that is?

No idea. I was referring to icon arrangement on the desktop. For some
odd reason Windows would always reset icons and ignore any assortment
you made every time you switch resolutions. That can get annoying if
you happen to have 50 or more icons sorted as you like them. :-(