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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"thanatoid" wrote in message
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"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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