i'm also getting this - and is why i came looking.

 

ATI card set to 1920 x 1200 and to "do nothing" on lid close - yet when you close the lid all your carefully placed and situated desktop icons get scooped up into the top left corner and you have to then reposition em - how very annoying!

 

can someone please answer - it's so infuriating, nothing seems to fix it!

There is a solution. Go to the Control Panel-> Performance and Maintenance-> Administrative Tools-> Services.
Now you will be presented with a list of services. Scrol down to "ATI HotKey Poller".
Double-click this to get the Properties, and change its Startup type from Automatic to Manual from the drop down menu.
Reboot the system, and now the next time you close/open your notebook lid, the resolution should not automatically resize anymore.
Good luck
stu

THANK YOU SO MUCH sakor1 !!!

 

I've been looking for a solution to this problem for some time now, and indeed, Dell support has been useless on this issue. Perhaps you could petition it to be added to the video FAQ?

I have a brand new 600m with radeon 9000.

 

Thanks!

yes! this works - although before i suggest this be added to FAQ - i noticed now the screen doesn't turn off when it's closed, this isn't a fire-risk? i know "do nothing" means "don't resize my deskgop, hybernate, or go for a short vacation" to me, but it does mean "turn the screen off to save power when the lid is closed" -

do i want the moon on a stick? or is there an answer to this as well?

 

Yes, I have found this to be annoying too.  I've got an Inspiron XPS with the WUXGA screen that does the exact same thing.  My solution was to use an free icon manager such as Iconoid ( http://www.sillysot.com/).  It takes a bit to figure out how to configure, but after that, all is good.  It basically takes a snapshot of your icon locations at each resolution and can automatically, upon resolution change, put them back.  Good luck