Sometimes when you click on the Icon Shepherd icon, it adds an additional informational area in the middle of the menu, similar to this image: You can also clear it yourself, by right-clicking on an empty space of your Desktop, and using the View menu: When Icon Shepherd detects such a situation, it offers you to clear this option. Note that if the Auto arrange icons option is enabled for your desktop, then Icon Shepherd would not be able to restore the icon positions: they would be auto-arranged instead by Windows.

You can use it any time to save a new snapshot of the icons and give it a name, to be able to easily recognize that layout on the menu next time you need to restore the icon positions from it. The menu also has the Remember icons now item on top of the list. If something happens and the icons become all messed up, you can use Icon Shepherd to restore the icon positions from a previous snapshot, with just a couple of clicks of the mouse: When a change is detected, Icon Shepherd takes a snapshot of the icon positions and remembers it for you. While the icon is there, it is quietly monitoring the changes happening to your desktop icons, such as when you move them, or add, delete, or rename an icon. When you download and install Icon Shepherd, it puts a small icon in the notification area of the taskbar (next to the system clock): It will keep track of the icons on your Windows desktop, and restore their positions when Windows messes them up. Icon Shepherd ™ is a software utility designed to take control of the situation when your desktop icons keep moving. Icon Shepherd: save, restore, and take control of moving Windows desktop icons

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