"Ron Badour" wrote in
:

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Description\Microsoft\ Rpc\UuidPe
rsistentData\LastTimeAllocated

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\
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/


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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