Okay, I’m a slave to habit, even silly habits that don’t really matter. I’ve always liked my Windows Recycle Bin down in the lower right corner of the screen. I’m starting to learn Windows 7 today and I can’t figure out how to move that sucker from the left to right side of the screen. I moved it from the upper left corner to the bottom left corner by checking “Sort by size”, but it will not move from the left side of the screen.
Or will it…?
Anybody know?
Right-click a vacant piece of your desktop. Under the View context menu, uncheck “Auto arrange icons.” Put your recycle bin where you find it most useful. Rejoice.
Uh … can’t you simply click once on and holding down button one (left button usually) on your mouse drag it where you want? That works for me just like on all previous version of windows that I recall.
I’m talking here about the usual start-up desktop view and not a view inside a folder in which you’d usually do things like sort by size, etc.
Solved. I was trying to move the icon using the laptop’s touch pad with no luck. I was doing it right, holding down the right side button, and moving the ‘phantom icon’ across only to have it always jump back to the left hand column no matter what. So I hooked up a mouse and was able to move it after unchecking “Auto arrange icons.” Stupid touch pad.
Thanks for the responses.
The touchpad has nothing to do with your problem.
The “Auto arrange icons” feature keeps them in neat columns along the left side of the screen & ignores any attempts to move them elsewhere. Whether you used a mouse or a touchpad to first uncheck the feature & then to drag the icon is immaterial.
The difference between Win7 & previous versions is the default for that feature used to be “off”. Now it’s “On”. Which is probably why OldGuy is wondering.
align to grid was much better, IMO.