Hi Herman.

That's exactly it.

Thanks very much! :-D

Scott

>
>Hi Scott,
>
>I haven't try this on NT based system, only on ME. But I don't think they are (much) different.
>There are two options to get the desktop icon position. The first option (the easy way) is to get it from registry. It is stored as REG_BINARY in:
>
>HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop\ViewView2
>
>So, you can just read its value, then parse each icon. The icon is structured like this:
>1. left (dword)
>2. top (dword)
>3. icon long name (chars)
>4. icon short name (chars)
>
>
>HTH