Hello Edwin,
Right click on the desktop and select arrange icons.
Is the Auto arrange checked?
If so, simply uncheck it and then right click again on the
desktop and select arrange icons and then select by type or name
or date or size.
That should do the trick.

I hope this helps,
Sincerely
Joe Sansoucie
maxsales.com

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On 01/14/2001 at 10:23 AM Edwin Cohen wrote:

>My Win 98 desktop has eight columns and eight rows of icons,
but several
>spaces are empty, and I cannot seem to move an icon into an
empty space.
>
>How do I fix this?
>
>TIA
>
>Edwin Cohen
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