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Hidden desktop.ini icons change its position itself when I refresh desktop or change the other icons location.

I want to see all hidden files so disabling Show hidden files, folders, and drives option does not fit me.

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  • That's some bizarre behavior that shouldn't be normal. Do you have any DPI settings adjusted or icon sizes or similar?
    – Seth
    Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 12:10
  • @Seth Nothing special - screen is 100% size, two album monitors with 1920x1080 resolution and Extend these displays enabled.
    – Comrade Che
    Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 12:21
  • Did you check whenever automatic arrangement of icons is enabled etc. on the right click menu on the desktop and/or did you try whenever one of those options resolves the problem?
    – Seth
    Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 12:51
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    This is not too strange behavior. A desktop.ini file contains settings, and is updated as folder content changes. It moves because it is being updated. Although normally it would stay in place. You can try to delete the file manually so that it is recreated once you perform the action and see if it stays at the same place. I think it jumps because there are 2 desktop.ini files and only one is deleted. You will want to delete both of them before performing the action again.
    – LPChip
    Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 14:23
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    That is odd behavior. Although dragging doesn't update the file, tone from my userprofile (as oposed to 'Public' ) ``did show a 'LastwriteTime' of '1/8/2020' --- more recent than anytime I might have played with it. If Daniel B's suggestion of re-enabling Hide protected... doesn't suit you, try clearing the 'Hidden' attribute of the desktop.ini files and see if it behaves any better.
    – Keith Miller
    Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 19:23

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Swap the position of the two desktop.ini files and it will stop. It only happens if they are ordered in the reverse order they update in.

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    It is impossible to validate your proposal because this behavior is no longer occurs.
    – Comrade Che
    Commented Oct 6, 2020 at 6:59

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