Why does the clipboard viewer window in Windows 95 open in a different location on the desktop each time. I have a shortcut on my desktop and unlike the other windows which open where they were last, the clipboard viewer seems to pick a new place each time !! Anybody know why ???
Perplexed,
rb
I don’t know the answer but it also happens for me, not only with Clipboard Viewer but also with Notepad and Calculator. Those are the only other two anomalies I can find. If you really want it to materialize in the same place every time you could leave it maximized. 
My WAG is that it has to do with what other programs you’re working with, and the order in which they were installed, or the order in which shortcuts to the desktop were created for them. Clipboard Viewer has to be installed after you install Win95, right? If you’re working with a variety of programs and shortcuts, sometimes when you ask the computer to show you the Clipboard Viewer, it has to mentally work its way down through a stack of things that you were already working on this morning, which don’t always occur in the same order. (Some days you start out with the SDMB, some days you play Duke Nukem first.) Then that affects where it puts it down on the desktop.
Shortly after I started doing computers, my Win95 desktop startled me by completely rearranging itself after a power outage, and I finally realized that what had happened was that it had put all the shortcuts back in the order in which the programs/shortcuts were installed, from left to right and from up to down, on the desktop.
So, also, are you shutting down by just hitting the Power button, or are you doing it the Redmond-approved way, by officially Shutting Down, which of course begins by clicking on Start? (Never have been able to figure that one out, myself. Maybe it’s a Seattle/Zen thing.) If you’re just hitting the Power button, then the Clipboard Viewer might come back in a different spot every time.
Sorry Goose. When it comes up in a different place each time I’m talking a short time. I can turn on the machine and before doing anything else or opening any other program if I open and close clipboard 100 times in a row it will come up in a different place 100 times. Its almost as if the clipboard is hooked to a seed randomizing program … or something. Its bizzare. I suspect that its just more of Gates’ program code overhead in windows. Oh well …
rb
The reason you shut down instead of just turning off is to protect memory. Just turn off one of these days and you’ll get ScanDisk. Let ScanDisk run, and you’ll find that there are memory problems. ScanDisk can fix them most times, but it’s a lot easier just to go through the shut down program.
Nothing to add here. Just wanted to say that “Duck Duck Goose” is a killer screen name! Welcome aboard!