On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:49:45 -0500, "PCR" wrote:

It may be as simple as Bob B. said. Otherwise...

(1) Have you changed the grid-- Icon Spacing horizontal/vertical-- in
"Control Panel, Display, Appearance tab, Item dropdown menu"? For a
1024x768 screen, mine are...

Horizontal... 62.
Vertical....... 56.

Fool with those values at your own peril. You may end up with invisible
icons!


Nope, NOTHING has been changed/installed/de-installed on the machine.

(2) Have you got too many icons for Auto Arrange to handle? Then one of
the following articles has a solution-- make folders for them.

forty-something. Nothing approaching AB's 78. (Is that a "record"? ;-))

(3) I guess read these articles, from...
http://search.support.microsoft.com/...dv=1&spid=1139 MSKB
Search "Desktop Icons"; Windows 98; Filtered; Full Text; All Words;
Anytime...

Went through all of them, nothing fits. But thanks for the suggestions. I have
rearranged them manually to something like they were. As I posted in response
to an earlier suggestion, they weren't in any special order, but I knew where
they all were almost without looking, and once they have been scrambled it's a
PITA to have to scour the 40+ icons looking for the one I want.