Remote Desktop Messes Up Icon Locations

Published on January 20, 2015 By Einstein In Fences

I did a search, but can't see than anyone has mentioned this. My work PC has a 23" screen and at home I have a 19" screen. When I do a remote desktop from home to work, the icons get all smashed together. It is as if Fences is trying to preserve the same layout but it scales it down a bit. That I can live with, but the crazy thing is that when I get back to work the icons are still in the messed-up, smashed together layout. I have to manually put them all back to where they should be.

I have used remote desktop before with Fences using dual monitors, and it would put them back after I closed the remote desktop session. But that was XP to XP. Could it be an issue with XP (at home) to Win-7 (at work)?

Any thoughts?

--Einstein

Comments

The_Gear

on Jan 21, 2015

Try right clicking your desktop, selecting View, then Auto Arrange Icons.

Einstein

on Jan 21, 2015

FOUND IT!!!

Even easier - there is an option in Fences that reads "Preserve my desktop layout by storing my Fences' positions on a per-screen-resolution basis". That does exactly what I needed.

Sometimes you don't think of the answer until you ask the question.

~~Einy

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