Icons move to the left on a 4K monitor

Hi Everyone,

I am having a great problem with my 4K monitor (LG 27MU67-B)connected to a Nvidia GTX980 via Displayport. I am using the monitor in native resolution (3840 x 2160) with a zoom factor of 175%. The Windows version is Windows 10 Home.

The problem is: After standby all icons on the desktop move to upper left corner.

You can find hundreds of thread regarding this problem but no solution, because I think this behavior is by design.

When the PC is in standby mode the monitor also enters his standby mode. When the computer awakes the monitor is still in standby and Windows thinks there is no monitor and uses a virtual monitor with lower resolution instead. Then it moves all icons to fit on this virtual monitor. Now the real monitor awakes and all icons stay in the upper left corner.

You can also see this behavior, when switching the monitor off and on or just pulling the Displayport-Cable and reasserting it.

Some people say this is a monitor problem, some say this is a graphic card problem. They may be right, but after all this is a great problem for the user. And Microsoft should be able to solve this problem.

This does not happen when using DVI-Cables, but this is no option for 4K.

I think the best solution would be, when Windows remembers the icon positions for each resolution. But even a behavior like with DVI (ignoring the detached monitor) would be helpful too. Or Windows should set the virtual monitor to the same resolution like the real monitor. And there may be other solutions.

However the current behavior makes it nearly impossible to work with windows. Tools like DesktopOK help a little bit, but cannot be the solution!

Hope someone from Microsoft reads this and sees this is really a problem.

However if someone else has a solution, don’t hesitate to post it.

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