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\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/

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"thanatoid" wrote in message
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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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