From: bashley101+et@gmail.com   
      
   JimH wrote:   
      
   > The Real Bev  wrote in   
   > news:h2jdkp$j10$1@news.eternal-september.org:   
   >   
   >> Auric__ wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> I doubt it.  I'm the only user and I've never switched into a different   
   >> account.  All the icons, except for the original ones, are for programs   
   >> I've installed or wanted to use without following the tree structure.   
   >   
   > It really doesn't matter whether or not you're the only user. When a   
   > program installs itself, it will place the icon in one of the two following   
   > folders:   
   >   
   > C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop   
   >   
   > or   
   >   
   > C:\Documents and Settings\\Desktop   
   >   
   > All XP computers have at least two "Desktop" folders. The one an   
   > installation program has chosen to use often cannot be determined until   
   > after the installation has completed.   
      
   Does that sound as nuts to anybody else as it does to me?   
      
   So a possible solution might be to dump them from  to ?   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
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