FIX for moving desktop icons!!:)

Download OnyX , click the maintenance icon then the ' Rebuild' tab then tick 'Display of folder's content then click 'Execute'. Booom Done.

Yep, Onyx is the best free utility I've found yet and solves a host of issues.
I usually tell people to run ALL of it's maintenance and cleaning aspects, they get a clean machine, the caches get rebuilt, their maintenance gets done, their permissions etc as well as their smart status and so forth all get checked.
If they have a more serious issue with the drive, then OnyX will tell them and they tell me which I can then advise them to get their data off immediately as their drive is failing etc.
It also teaches them to fish, thus they learn how to do some basic repairs themselves, if they do all that and then come back and say their problems wasn't fixed, then I know to look elsewhere.

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I did get a potential solution over on a Windows 8 forum. Unfortunately the solution doesn't stop the migration of the icons. It only restores them to their original position with a few mouse clicks. I have yet to find a solution that keeps the icons from moving in the first place.
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Hi Chachi,
Thanks for the script!!
The second time I run it ,it returns to the desktop like it was.Nice work!
When I close (by accident) the computer without returning to the desktop with icons, will it still be possible to return to it the next time I open the computer and I run the script?
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boot in safe mode
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Refer to the link to perform clean boot.
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start as normal after troubleshooting
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Hi There
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Hi,
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A possible fix for adobe reader icons on windows 2000 with SP4

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