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thanatoid - 24 May 2006 04:54 GMT

Hello and sorry to interrupt the flow...

I've asked this before, and never got an answer. Maybe NO ONE
knows.
All I got was links to WinTidy. I am aware of its existence, was
before, and also know of other programs which handle this
problem.

The QUESTION I would like answered - NO LINKS TO PROGRAMS WHICH
TAKE CARE OF IT PLEASE - is WHERE IN THE WORLD does Windows
store the desktop icon position information???

I have looked everywhere and I can not find it. It has to be
SOMEWHERE, right? One would think registry, but I must have
looked at every damn key and value and I can't find it.

W H E R E ???!?!
W H E R E ???!?!

Someone PLEASE tell me.

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Ron Badour - 24 May 2006 13:45 GMT

Adding an icon to the desktop created a change in these two keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Description\Microsoft\Rpc\UuidPersistentData\LastTimeAllocated

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop\ViewView2

The second key looks like a good bet to me; however, there is a ton of data
listed and I don't have the inclination to try to figure it out what it
means :-)

If you are going to do any serious poking around in the registry, you need a
program like RegView: http://www.regview.com/regview/

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> Hello and sorry to interrupt the flow...
>
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>
> Someone PLEASE tell me.

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thanatoid - 24 May 2006 17:55 GMT

> Adding an icon to the desktop created a change in these two
> keys:
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> registry, you need a program like RegView:
> http://www.regview.com/regview/

Thank you for your reply.

I use 95B and 98SE and there is no Desktop subcategory under
Streams. Still, your reply was the nicest I have received so
far.

I'll try regview, I've thought about it before. I have two
good registry cleaners/defraggers and they usually took care
of things very well - this is just a question, not a problem.

Regards,
t.

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Ron Badour - 24 May 2006 18:29 GMT

RegView is a program that takes a snapshot of your registry. You can then
make changes to settings, etc., and then run RegView again. It then
compares the current registry to the snapshot and lists the changes that
were made to the registry.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

>> Adding an icon to the desktop created a change in these two
>> keys:
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> Regards,
> t.

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thanatoid - 25 May 2006 00:30 GMT

> RegView is a program that takes a snapshot of your
> registry. You can then make changes to settings, etc., and
> then run RegView again. It then compares the current
> registry to the snapshot and lists the changes that were
> made to the registry.

Thanks again. I have DL'd it and will give it a try. I would
really like to find out. It's been bugging me for about ten
years (!).

Sounds like a useful program generally, but ever since I got
Acronis True Image free on a British computer magazine cover
disc, I have basically stopped worrying about anything going
wrong and the dozens of programs and hours of work necessary
to make it right again.

Best wishes,
t.

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