While Icon Shepherd is free of charge, the developers request to use it only on one computer at home. You can also make sure to restore the last used icon layout with a Computer start.

You can limit the maximum number of icon layouts to remember, i.e., snapshot, choose to restore defaults and restore hidden messages. The software also comes with a bit of configuration. If there are no changes, it will tell you that there is nothing to change.

To manually take a snapshot, you can right-click on the software icon, and click on “Remember icons now.” If you made any changes, it would remember. Auto Arrange settings arranged all the icons on their own. However, for Icon Shepherd to work as expected, you will have to make sure that Auto arrange icons option is enabled for your desktop. Once installed, it takes a snapshot immediately and then sits quietly in the system tray. Not only this, but it can also track add, delete, or rename an icon. It can either done by you or by anything on Windows. Icon Shepherd is snapshot-based software that quietly monitors the changes happening to the desktop icons. Restore desktop icon layout to original position In this post, we will share a small software called Icon Shepherd which can restore desktop icon layout to the original location on the Windows 11/10 desktop. In either case, you lost the position of the icons. Many a time consumers have reported that their desktop icon rearranges after reboot. Sometimes, the arrangement of the icons is lost either because something in the system changed, or because you did with the right-click and sorted it. We all love our desktops and the way we arrange icons on it.

Restore desktop icons