You can always change this.

I am getting really frenzy with the way how Windows organize the icons on their (but MINE!) desktop. Everytime I save some file on my desktop I have big problems with finding it. My desktop’s icons are organized so that applications are on the left, and I put the data on the right, both links, shortcuts to datafolders and actual files.

Now, when I save something new on the desktop, Windows will put icon at an arbitrary (probably the next ‘free’ slot) location. I also observed it tends to be the left-top-free-first-organize algorithm. I call this very poor usability.

But I want my data-files icons to appear on my right-hand side, always. How to do it, folks?

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