Windows 7 desktop (redirected folder) icons layout

Please help me to solve this issue.
Our computers louse desktop icon layout after returning from sleep.
Important facts about our setup:
Windows 7 professional SP1 64 bit
Redirected folders
We louse desktop icon layout every time after computer louses it's connection to server where our desktop folder is redirected.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Configure folder redirection (Desktop) to some server.
2. Move user icons (icons that are not form local computer installation) somewhere on desktop.
3. Put computer to sleep.
4. Leave computer in sleep for 10 minutes (so that he louses connection to server where folder is redirected).
5. Wake up computer.
Every time we do this icons are moved to the left.
It doesn't help if we turn of auto arrange icons and align icons to grid.
Thank you in advance on your reply.
Best regards.

Hi,
I made a test, no matter whether the PC has connection to the server or not, the layout of the desktop icons should remains as it should be. it will not automatically arrange the icons. Sounds weird in your situation. According to your description, if this
issue only happens when the computer loses connection during sleep, then to avoid this, as a workaround, we can check the power management option of the network adapter, untick "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2740020
If the network connection remains during sleep, and the issue remains after PC wakes up, then we can eliminate the server connection issue, in that case, please post back, and we can take a further analysis of the issue.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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