I am one of the lucky people to have bought a desktop with Vista installed.  It’s like the even numbered Star Trek movies – avoid at all costs! Random crashes, blue screens, hijacks and now the thing rearrangesmy desktop icons every time I reboot.

From poking around the internet I am not alone. And of course there are quite an array of ‘solutions’ that don’t do anything useful. Kind of interesting that MS hasn’t come out with a workaround or fix that solves the issue. Especially where the problem appears to have existed for some time and is present in some Windows 7 installs as well.

I found a really useful product called . The product allows you to create sets of desktop icons on your desktop with real names, like “Work in Progress”, “Tools”, or anything else.

Windows Fences

This is really what I was trying to do anyhow. Best is the common usage version is free! Highly recommend.