Ever experienced the frustration of your desktop application windows unexpectedly rearranging every time you return to your computer from sleep? Imagine the following scenario:
- Your device (laptop or desktop) is connected to external monitors over a DisplayPort connector. Application windows are placed in certain locations on your screen.
- You leave your system for some time and your device goes to sleep.
- You come back and return to your system to wake your device.
- The application windows have unexpectedly moved to a different location of the monitor (sometimes clustered on one screen).
As a result, you have to re-drag application windows to the original, intended position pre-sleep. This is likely to lead you to feel frustrated because this happens almost every time when your system goes to sleep and takes time out of your productivity.
Very annoying there is a fix to this problem however it is accomplished through an open-source third party program.
Next version of Windows 10 is Windows 10 X this will be fixed in the new version. However still not addressed in the current release of Windows 10 builds 15 plus to Windows 10 H20 however there is an application that can fix this issue for those of you who have Multiple screens or split screen.
Desktop Restore 1.7
Save and restore desktop icons’ position on your Windows 10 PC
Desktop Restore is a Windows program that provides you with a quick solution for changing the arrangement of your desktop icons. The utility brings you easy-to-configure settings, immediately applies the needed changes, and uses minimum CPU resources while operating on your PC.
This application might prove to be of good use if you need to easily switch between various layouts of your desktop icons. For instance, you could have a desktop layout for work and another one for home.
