how do I make my desktop icons stay put?

SJL

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Mar 19, 2014
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I just upgraded to Win7. How do I get my desktop icons to stay put? I've unchecked auto arrange, but Win7 does it anyway? This is frustrating!
 

Tradesman1

Legenda in Aeternum
can take the following (copy it) and paste into notebook, set as a text file and save as lock.reg to the desktop, then double click it and tell it to merge to registry



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSaveSettings"=hex(3):00,00,00,00