Click on the desktop with the secondary mouse button to open the context menu, select View
and then unmark Align icons to the grid
. You can now drag the icons offscreen, but whenever the program creates new icons they'll be placed onscreen.
If you don't have anything on your desktop but those .dat
icons you can also unmark Show desktop icons
on that same menu to hide all icons on the desktop.
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