desktop icon and registry

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Where in the registry are the position of desktop icon kept?

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Are you sure this is fro the desktop ICON and not the toolbar and
Taskbar?

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:14:03 +0100, Thorsten Matzner
<tmatzner@gmx.net> wrote:

>Ken@msn.com wrote:
>
>>Where in the registry are the position of desktop icon kept?
>
>The settings are found here:
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop,
>but you usually cannot edit them via the Registry .

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Not that either. The position of icons on the desktop must be stored
somewhere in the registry the question is where?


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:19:25 +0100, Thorsten Matzner
<tmatzner@gmx.net> wrote:

>Ken@msn.com wrote:
>
>>Are you sure this is fro the desktop ICON and not the toolbar and
>>Taskbar?
>
>For the Desktop, but this does not seem to apply to Windows XP as I
>can see.
>Try this: "Your view settings or customizations for a folder are lost
>or incorrect" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711).