Windows Vista - Icons locked and overlapping vertically. Help!

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Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

have you tried right clicking on the desktop
then View
then select align to grid and auto arrange. Might need to select refresh after, maybe not

I have tried numerous combinatios with turning auto allign off, then allign to grid, then auto allign off, or both on, both off etc, etc. I tried quite a few combo's.. maybe not the right one after all though? I highly doubt it. I do know a good enough amount about PC's.. I have never seen this before though. I will however follow those steps just to double check. It seems like it should be that easy, but if I fiddled for good 20 minutes, I am not so sure.. I am pretty sure I would have got it after the first 5 minutes.