Dis-Location of Desktop Icons

The desktop arrangement is in your Documents and Settings under your user name in  folder named Desktop . . You could try copying that folder somewhere else to be copied back after a resolution change . . don't really know if it will work or not

This page, although it mostly references Windows NT, says the solution works for XP too:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsNT/UserTips/Customization/SaveDesktopIconLayout.html

bleggee,

If the above does not work, Save Desktop Icons Pos. will work on Windows XP. The utility is free try.
http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Windows-Utilities/System-Utilities/Save-Desktop-Icon-Pos-.html

Any solution is good, but I struck out so far. Any other help is appreciated. Here's what I ran into:
LEETUTOR - I tried the "Force a Save" per the article ... doesn't seem to work on my XP SP2 system.  I moved a few icons, clicked on the desktop, hit f-5 to save (nothing happened), then powered off (on my practice system of course!).  The icons/desktop was not saved ... icons reverted back to their orig positions.
To test the articles other option, I created the .reg file & ran it. It added the new Registry Key just fine, but again, did not prevent saving of the icon positions when I rebooted normally.
WAR1 - That Util sounds like a great one, howeve also looks like it didn't worl in XP (at least for me). Althoughtheor site says it "does not work in 2000/NT/XP", I gave it a try anyway. Installed it, ignore "Caution - Use at your own risk in 2000/NT/XP", it installed Ok but I got all kind of run-time errord trying to use it.
ALL - Thanks in advance for any other ideas to help ...
Brian

Perfect! And simple too. And free. Can't ask for more than that !
Thx
Brian