[G4] icons moving around

[John Baltutis]

On 02/28/05, rich northouse <rnorthouse at wi.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Back for some more of your great advice and problem solving!
>
> I have a G4, Quick Silver, running OSX.3.8.  I have three disk drives,
> one of them partition into two. So therefore I four icons representing
> these drives. I normally keep these kind of icons in a vertical row, on
> the far right side of my desktop screen.       ( matches my political
> bent!)
>
> But I believe, starting with 10.3.7, these babies get moved all over
> the place at boot time. They usually end up near the trash icon in the
> lower right corner, rather than farther up, towards the top.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?  Is there a way I can lock their
> location?

The only time I've seen this is when there are items near where the disk
icons usually reside. Try this. Move any other desktop icons and inch or
two to the left and restart. That should fix your problem.