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   Auric__ to The Real Bev   
   Re: Icon sorting   
   02 Jul 09 14:23:18   
   
   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:58:46 GMT, The Real Bev wrote:   
      
   > I used to organize my 50 or so desktop icons in reasonable ways -- to   
   > me, anyway.  Unfortunately, every once in a while something would happen   
   > (mostly trying to start XP without having my KVM switch switched to the   
   > windows machine so it could make the proper monitor settings) to   
   > reorganize them in ways I didn't like.   
   >   
   > I finally gave up and set the sort order to 'alphabetical', which is   
   > mindlessly reproducible.  Fine, except it does it twice.  One group of   
   > icons a-z and then a second group of different icons a-z.  I've tried   
   > several reorganizations, but they always end up that way.   
   >   
   > I'm tired of playing around.  What's happening?   
      
   I would guess that one group is on *your* desktop (...\username\Desktop) and   
   the other is on the "all users" desktop (...\All Users\Desktop) -- but that's   
   just a guess.   
      
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