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The thread discusses frustration with the Windows 8.1 Start Screen, specifically concerning the inability to control app placement, as apps automatically rearrange themselves after being moved. The original poster seeks a way to prevent this automatic re-sorting. A subsequent user suggests installing Classic Shell as a solution to improve the Start Menu experience.

djchapple

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I have just bought a new computer with Windows 8.1 and I am confused and underwhelmed by 8.1.

My main gripe is the totally uncontrollable start Screen.

OK I can sort apps into groups and name the groups so that's a start.

After getting apps into different groups I now set about sorting them so I click on an app and drag it to it;'s correct place. This works OK perhaps once or twice and then all of a sudden all of the apps in the group tear around link headless chickens and I am back to square one with a random selection.

Is there anyway to stop this automatic re-sorting of the apps? I cannot see why it does this as it appears to have no function what so ever. Why should anyone want their selection to be randomised?