Desktop Icons Out of Order

My desktop icons will not line up in alphabetical order by name. I get the usual four or five icons which seem to be first in all Windows products followed by two alphabetical lists. Not critical but annoying.

 

If you mean like My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places, and Recycle Bin being the first, and not in alpha. order, you can just move them to where you'd like, but if you try to rearrange them again, it'll move them back to where they were before (at the begining). If any of that made since

 

Perhaps some of your icons are folders. Windows lists folders first and files afterward. This might account for your perceived double listing.

If you're particular about such things, as I am, get EzDesk 1.8 which will allow you to arrange the Desktop icons in any way you like and then it will memorize and store that arrangement so it can be recalled when needed for restoration. I try to arrange my icons based on my own usage frequency and preferences. When that gets scrambled by someone clicking "By Name" or when some other mishap occurs and upsets the arrangement, it's pretty nice to call up EzDesk and have it restore order.