>>The annoying thing about icons on desktop... they never stay where you left them. I don't really use them on my machine - I use bbLean and Launchy - but on a few servers where I remote frequently I have to use them and I've laid them out in some way which makes sense to me. Many of them are set for all users so I can't just delete them or move them into a folder, so this spatial grouping helps me a lot.
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>>Presently, I have changed the monitor for a larger one. And guess what - all the icons are laid out in three columns on the left, kind of alphabetically (i.e. "Recycle bin" is on top, the rest is alphabetic). Just like Windows 95, where this happened weekly. And this is WServer 2008... so in thirteen years they haven't bothered to fix this. I assume they are busy fixing the file copying, so there's no time to do this one.
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>>And this CAN be fixed - I have a virtual machine with Ubuntu, and I move it left and right, resize it pretty much every time I launch it, and it moves its windows smartly. They keep their relative position.
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>>SET RANT ON stays.
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>It is annoying... I am using since a long time a small program called Desktop Restore by Jamie O'Connell, it allows me to save the position of my icons on the desktop for multiple formats (ie, my current setup is Multi-Monitor *[1920 x 1080][1920 x 1080]) and you can save it for each different # of monitors and resolutions as you use, then it adds the "Save" and "Restore" options to the context sensitive of the desktop, so you can save and restore whenever you want

I'd love to have had that years ago, when I still tried to use icons. Icon's work fine if there's just a dozen of them and you regularly open one app at a time, then close it before opening the next one. I presently count 13 desktop windows (let's see... text editor, skype, mail, browser, music player, SQL tool, task manager, two document, source control client, only one fox and a virtual machine - the ubuntu, of course). To open yet another one, I'd have to minimize everything, then find the icon I want, yell at windows for moving them around again, launch the thing, then remember what was it what I wanted to have open along with it, hover over the taskbar and wait for the windows to pop up the list of documents I have open, remember which one I wanted (I wonder, in LibreOffice, does it count sWriter and sCalc as the same app or not)... bah. Alt-space, and Launchy comes up with its inputbox, I type 2-3 characters, not necessarily in proper order (for something called 'slight' I type just 'lih' and it knows, the most intelligent MRU I ever saw), done.

IOW, icons belong in the church. My monitor is not an iconostas.