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It's more fun if you flip the image horizontally.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Seen it in every version since at least XP.
Most commonly when something triggers a screen resolution change. This was a recurring dumpsterfire at my old job when going from docked and laptop lid closed to undocked and laptop screen in use. At home I get it occasionally when installing a GFX driver update independently from windows update (which I assume does it during the reboot phase to avoid damage).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Seen it in every version since at least XP.
You're not going back far enough. I've seen icons getting shuffled around on the desktop since 95. At least it never happened on Windows 3.1, with its grouped Program Manager.
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You have some extraneous characters in your post title... "icon layout".
FWIW Win 8 does this to me from time to time too, and I saw it on XP back in the day as well. It's undoubtedly our fault.
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I've had it on a couple of occasions. There's a batch file here that I found very good to rebuild the icon cache:
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You put icons on your desktop? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Some people like Macs. :shrug:
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Actually, I'm not a Mac user. I've just never liked a cluttered desktop. I'll drop stuff there temporarily at times, but it's usually empty.
Software Zen: delete this;
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On a Surface?
Generally Windows 10 is all good on other machines, but my Surface likes to s**t itself every now and again (more frequently than that - I think it may need a prostate check) and explorer crashes and restarts resulting in the icons get loosely spaced, anchored top-left.
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I keep my icons stacked at the left, and if I want one, I look for it in alphabetical order.
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Happens sometimes, not only on Windows 10. You may try [^]
C.Maia
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I find that sometimes after a major update the icons end up stacked against the left side point the screen. I am a normal person. I have yet to see anyone who uses Windows who has a blank screen!
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Those are not your icons Chris.
They belong to Microsoft...didn't you read the license.
Considering the number of tools available to undo this (I have one on my machine) it obviously happens to a great number of users.
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Why anyone would ever have icons on their desktop terrifies and disgusts me.
I wish my 4k screen didn't flicker when I turn it on from standby, requiring me to unplug and replug the DisplayPort, then move the start bar back off to the left screen, then resize the start bar to fit the day name in the clock. THAT'S a real annoyance. :/
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That's a fairly harsh reaction.
Just to amuse you then:
- I have shortcuts to common sites I use. It saves me a couple of clicks
- I often need to work on multiple documents and I store shortcuts to the folders those documents are in on the desktop
- I have the bin and a shortcut to "This PC"
- I have shortcuts to Dropbox because it saves a couple of clicks
- I'll often have a few temp files lying around. Not many, but maybe half a dozen
- I have shortcuts to some important maintenance scripts
All this could absolutely be replaced by QuickLinks in Explorer, or pinning them to the taskbar, or using the Start Menu, but I like to just double click and go.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Harsh but fair. 
- Bookmarks bar in chrome; a single click, and I always have my browser open;
- My applications know where my documents are, because I've been working on them;
- Disabled the recycle bin, WinKey+E for explorer;
- Don't use dropbox, but can't you doubleclick on the icon in the systray?
- D:\temp;
- My scripts are in
PATH.
Look at that, it's almost like we can use an operating system in different ways. 
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Next we're going to see cats and dogs sleeping together, C developers embracing garbage collection and browsers using consistent rendering models.
OK, the last one was a joke.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yup, creators update and the left column of icons keeps getting moved. Sometimes things move out of the left column and sometimes into the left column. I tried to remove everything from the left column so as not to cause too much change, but Windows kept putting new items into the left column and them moving them.
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I was assisting a colleague while she was on a conference call and remote with a client troubleshooting a problem with a .csv file. I recommended to open the file with Notepad and look for an empty row which shows as just a bunch of commas. When she finds the offensive line, she brings it to the client's attention so that they may be able to correct the problem themselves in the future and says 'you will need to remove the line here...comma comma comma comma comma'....[fill in the blank]
I couldn't resist! All parties attending got a good chuckle! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Comma chameleon? 
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Winner! I detested the song but it was on heavy rotation back in the early to mid '80s...the only time I ever watched it. (or before I got a life!) 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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He also released "Do you really want to hurt me?" to which my answer was always "Yes. Yes, I do. You made us suffer 'Karma Chameleon' so I want to tie you to the railway tracks, and beat you with a big stick until the train comes".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You should have gone for "comma comedian". Bonus points for subtlety.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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