Inspiron 8600 - UXGA Screen - Icons move when opening back up screen

Question

I like to keep my icons spread out around my desktop and keep it generally uncluttered. It seems that when I close the screen and I reopen, all of my icons are shifted back over to the top left. No matter what I do I can't get it to stop. I did catch it when I was opening it back up and it looks like when I close the screen that it sets the desktop to something like 640x480 so naturally all of the icons move to fit that res. and then when it resets itself back up to 1920x1200 they are all shifter to the left. Can anyone offer me some advice on how to fix this. It's very annoying. Thank You Josh

JoshFink · Answer

Also, I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600 with 128mb of ram. Thanks Josh

JoshFink · Answer

Found a thread with the same exact problem but n response on his either. http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=104375 Thanks

beemsg · Answer

I initially noticed the same problem, but it got resolved after I upgraded the ATI driver to the most recent Omega Driver ( http://www.omegacorner.com/index_ati.html).

JoshFink · Answer

Thanks.. That seemed to have worked...

Syrihl · Answer

Hey, I have the same problem with my WUXGA Inspiron 8500.  Sometimes when I open the lid back up, the resolution changes to 640x480 centered in the middle of the screen with large black borders.  When I try to change the resolution in the display properties, it won't allow me to move the slider.  But if I open up the Advanced properties, click OK out of that and OK out of the display properties, then it'll let me change the resolution back the next time I open up the display properties (sometimes takes a couple of open/close cycles).  I have tried to latest Dell drivers and some of the Omega drivers.  Does anyone know which Omega driver to use for a 64MB NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go card? (not on the list)  Kinda strange, just started happening a couple of weeks ago.

spiked_martini · Answer

The Omega drivers are only for ATI cards. You might want to try a forum search... many people on this board, in particular, are using non-Dell drivers.

Syrihl · Answer

Thanks, I'll try searching around.  Omegacorner does have  some NVIDIA drivers ( http://www.omegacorner.com/index_nvidia.html), but I don't think the Go cards are supported.

GoddFadda · Answer

Regarding problems with Desktop Icons moving around all the time, or scattering during monitor resolution changes, try this shareware app out:

http://www.nouturn.com/resetter/

It will remember the icons positions and automatically reset them back each time the res changes. You can manually reset them to via a system tray icon.

Hope this helps,

Nick

silverdye97 · Answer

Same problem with my Inpiron 600m: resolution switches to 800X600 when screen closes and switches back when it opens.  Tried everything, even DELL tech support - thought it was hopeless.  That driver worked, though, thanks for the tip...

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