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Desktop icons rearrange after using remote desktop connection

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Mar 15, 20269591 views
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I sometimes remote into my desktop PC (1900x1280) from my laptop (1280x900). When I do, Windows (Vista) on the desktop PC rearranges all my desktop icons. I could understand this if the RDP session's desktop size was too small to fit them in, but it's not. I have about 12 icons, which do fit on the…

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Fix for: Desktop icons rearrange after using remote desktop connection

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I know about 3rd party software that will restore the arrangement of the desktop icons after you make a remote desktop connection. The 1st link is for the software, and the 2nd one is a blog post about this software (explaining generally how to use …

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