Unwanted rearrangement of icons

From: Regina (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:30:26 -0700

I have a picture on my desktop, and I have my icons
arranged by category in and around this picture, in a
pattern which makes logical sense to me.

Every once in a while,when I've donwloaded a new program,
or when I've run some spyware search, or just turned the
computer off and on again, all of the icons which I have
arranged near the taskbar have suddenly jumped over to
the left side, in alphabetical columns, and I have to put
then back where I want them to be. (This does not affect
icons which are place *within* the picture, only those in
the margin above the task bar.)

Is there some way of "locking" the location of icons on
my desktop so that this stops happening?

Tx. (XP5.1, Home Edition, 2002)

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