From: bashley101+et@gmail.com   
      
   Pastor Dave wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:16:39 -0700, The Real Bev   
   >  spake thusly:   
   >   
   >   
   >>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 ?   
   >   
   > Then every user will have the exact same desktop.   
      
   That's OK, there's only me.   
      
   > And I don't think that's your problem.   
      
   Not the worst one, anyway :-)   
      
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