Desktop Icons Rearranged; IE Favorites disappeared

Help! IE Favorites has disappeared, then after rebooting my desktop ikons became re-arranged. WHAT'S GOING ON ?

I'm running Vista64 w SP1. My desktop folders are re-located to a D drive. The OS is on the C drive. I still have all the "D:\<username>\Favorites" files that previously appeared in the IE favorites list.

Hi Bob,

Using this tutorial as a guide to help, change the Desktop and Favorites user folders back to the default location using Method One step 5. If that does not work, then you will need to do use Method Two to change their default locations in the registry.

Personal User Shell Folders - Move Location

Hope this helps you,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

All my ikons were randomly put in the upper left corner of the monitor.

I easily moved them as best I could remember back to where they were before.

But the real question is what the heck happened to scramble them? XP never did this!

Bob

Bob,

I'm not sure why they rearranged on you like that. It may be from having those two folders relocated to another drive??

Where you running anything that you think of that could have caused this before it happened this time?

Shawn

Doing a system restore (point) can change or erase desktop contents.

That's interesting! I updated the NVIDIA driver. The update was successful, no problems. So a system restore shouldn't have happened, only a checkpoint.

Are you saying I should expect the desktop to get rearranged every time Vista drivers are updated?