desktop ICONs messed up by ATI

[hhy2k]

Well i have no Idea what causes this, but anytime I switch resolution on my desktop the ICONs leave their places and get all mixed up. I am guessing that windows doing this in order to make all the icons visible at any resolution (which is impossible anyway if I got for 800x600 for example because there sre too many).

Is there any way around? I never had this problem on other PCs... sure I never switched resolutions either.

No auto arrange is on.

thanks

[Humpa]

When you change screen resolution the desktop icons are relocated. When you change back, they are not where they were before. This will occur on any windows machine.
I have looked around the web, but I never saw a good solution.
There are 3rd party applications that you can run in the background that will do this for you - but I am not satisfied with that method.

I would not recommend this, but if you remove all power while the pc/laptop is running, when you boot it back up the desktop icons will be where they were the last time you booted up.
The fact that this ill-advised method(?) puts the icons back, proves that the icon location info is still in the computer. This makes me think that there should be a way to incorporate this into windows, without some 3rd party app.

[Chun-Yu]

If I remember correctly, if you have ATI's Hydravision installed, right-clicking the desktop will have a "save icon position" entry that is for this purpose. Then again, I haven't been in Windows for so long I could be wrong.