Avoid The Annoying Unexpected App Rearrangement
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).
Tired of re-dragging 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.
A Rapid HPD fix has been implemented and is currently available in the Windows Insider Preview build (21287). It’s turned on by default in this build so there’s nothing to do other than allow your multi-monitor setup to enter a sleep state and see what happens when you wake it back up. Ideally, window rearrangements will no longer occur.
Unfortunately MS is not fixing this issue in the current builds of Windows 10 this fix at the moment as far as we know only applies to the newest build objective and the Windows Insider Preview build for Windows 10 X Edition which is the next build platform of Windows.
However don’t be discouraged if your experiencing this issue in your current build of Windows 10 there is a third party open=source Free program that will help fix this issue.
Desktop Restore 1.7
Free Software
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.
You may download an install this tiny application I have tested it and it does work with no other third party installations in the background. Marked as safe application and is recommended if you experiencing this above annoying issue with your desktop icons.