AltDesk is moving my icons!

i_sniff_blue · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

I recently downloaded and installed the trial of AltDesk 1.8, and right off the bat, using the default settings with 3 virtual desktops, I noticed that if I switch back to my first desktop (the one with my icons) to another, certain icons would move. Initially this was just the "AltDesk Desktops" folder icon itself (I have Windows set to view all hidden folders) and a shortcut to a demo of Battlefield 2142 labeled "Battlefield 2142 Demo". They would move down a certain number of spaces each time, moving over to a new column each time they would run out of space in their current column. I tried deleting the Battlefield shortcut to see if that would stop it, but instead it's now causing an entire half-column of game shortcuts to move down a spot each time, while leaving the AltDesk folder alone! Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

seaotter64 · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Geneva, Switzerland

I have had this problem as well, on my home computer and my work computer, and have tried any number of times to move icons around on the desktop to try and stop them from moving -- no luck! But surely this is happening to other people as well; I'm surprised there aren't more postings about this. Would really love a solution to this because it's one of the few things that bug me about this program.

BillW50 · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 805

i_sniff_blue!

seaotter64 · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Geneva, Switzerland

" i_sniff_blue!"

is that a response? I mean, I can see very well that's the user name of the person *I* replied to, saying that I have had the same problem the s/he has...but beyond that I'm not sure what BillW50 is trying to say.

Liderc · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:53 am Post subject:

Sorry, seaotter64. I believe that BillW50 was confused on the post (since the OP posted it 2007). Personally, I have experience this bug. However, I have only experience it while using the option for separate icons on each desktop. If you do not use specific icons on specific desktops and do not care if all desktops have the same folders, shortcts, and files on them, then disable the option. Right-click on the AltDesk icon in the system tray (notification area) and click on Preferences. Click on "General" in the left pane. Then, in the right pane look for the "General Behavior" section. The first option in that section should say "Individual set of icons for each Desktop". Uncheck that box. As for using the "Individual set of icons for each Desktop" and the icons rearranging themselves on desktop changes; I have not been able to find a solution. Therefore, I classify it as a bug. Maybe Kess has some insight on this.

seaotter64 · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Thanks!! That's really not a bad idea -- I should have thought of that! I'll try it!

Kess · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 686 Location: at work

This is a known issue. This is how AltDesk behaves in Explorer shell when desktop icons are arranged by grid and you have individual set of icons for each desktop option enabled. Please disable either of them.

seaotter64 · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Thanks very much for your reply. As suggested by Liderc, I copied all my icons to Desktop 1 and then removed the preference setting for individual icon sets for each desktop. Since then I have had no further problems.

AlysonH · Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

I'm running AltDesk on an XP-64 machine and am having the problem of the icons snapping back to auto-arrange even though I have that option turned off. I DO have the individual icons on desktops ticked. It didn't seem to occur with the 32-bit version so not sure if it's particular to the 64-bit O/S?

Liderc · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject:

I doubt that the OS being x64 has an effect on this. If you have your desktop arranged using "align to grid", try disabling that option and see if it helps.

AlysonH · Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

Didn't THINK it would have any effect but.....

I don't have either align to grid or auto-arrange on. :/

Also just noticed that the "shared" icons are not sharing.

Things that I have done so far:

Uninstalled the application, removed all registry references, folders and application settings.
Made sure that both the auto-align and the align to grid settings were off before re-installing.
Thinking it was a setting within AltDesk that I had missed, I copied my .ini file from the original computer to the new one.

Still have the same issue.

Liderc · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:46 am Post subject:

AlysonH · Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

It gets a little murky here. On startup I have:

Sophos
VNC Server
Video Card Control Center (ATI Catalyst)
Logitech Mouse driver

The only difference between my current computer and my previous is the Video Card. (I'll try disabling that and see if that might be the issue.)

Generally, I'm running Outlook, Track-It, IE7 and our ERP software, all of which is the same between the systems.

The .ini file is:

Liderc · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject:

Excellent. I'll run this in my XP x64 VM and see what I can come up with.

AlysonH · Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

As an update, I completely removed all of the Catalyst software (thinking that it might be some kind of override there) and then tried AltDesk again. Still snaps back to the same position.