fix Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving windows 10 - Howtosolveit
232How to fix Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving in windows 10. Solve Windows 10 Folder View Settings and Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving. How do I fix desktop icon rearrange issue. Win10 desktop icons rearranging on restart. Fix Windows 10 Desktop Icons Auto Arrange problems.
Windows saves the desktop icon layout when the user logs off, and the setting is read during logon. Recently I came across a case where the desktop icons rearrange to their default positions after a restart or logoff/logon cycle. This turned out to be a Permissions issue with a registry key, which kept Windows from writing to it.
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If this doesn't works please try this fix desktop icons position and folder view settings problem in windows 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjDd...
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NOTE: If you don't want to modify Registry yourself, you can download following ready-made Registry script to do the task automatically:
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B1Y9Nv...
After downloading the ZIP file, extract it and run the .REG file to fix the problem. But first you'll need to manually take ownership of the Registry key as mentioned in above tutorial. The Registry script can only change values in Registry Editor. It can't take ownership of keys.
Run regedit (start menu / run/search / regedit) and search for
{42aedc87-2188-41fd-b9a3-0c966feabec1}
You need to give yourself permission to edit the registry keys in this video you will learn how to take ownership and assign full permission on a registry key. It'll become useful if you are trying to delete a key in Registry and getting an error such as "Cannot delete key: Error while deleting key".
Now double click on (Default) and replace "%SystemRoot%\SysWow64\shell32.dll"
with "%SystemRoot%\system32\windows.storage.dll"
Restart your computer and hopefully the issues have been resolved
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