swalker wrote:
I must be brain dead or something. I could swear that at one time I
could right click on the desktop and choose to lock the icons in
place.

No more if I ever could.

Now Win7 wants to move my icons around every now and then

How do I make them stay as I want them to.

Thanks.

Get Desktop Restore directly from the maker and not from a
third party spam, trojan, site.
Go he
http://www.midiox.com/

It can be done manually but, imo, it's not worth effort
of rebuilding the registry every time the icons move around.