Desktop Icons Position Registry

Question

_{Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:11 AM | 1 vote}

Recently I found out that physical position of all desktop icons are saved in the registry under:

HKEY\_USERS\{USERID}\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1/Desktop/ItemPosXXXXXX.

I would like to use this file to change the position if the desktop icons. In order to do that I need to be able to read and understand the file.I want to know what information is stored in this file and in what order? Also is it possible to convert the binary data in a text file simular to this:

Icon_name: "firefox.exe"; Icon_Position: 1233px, 189px; Icon_Link: "c://system64/firefox/firefox.exe";

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_{Friday, October 14, 2016 2:45 AM ✅Answered}

Hi iZanoVic,

"Recently I found out that physical position of all desktop icons are saved in the registry "
How did you do that?

I have tried to capture the corresponding registry configuration after moving the desktop icons. I didn`t find any corresponding registry key.
I have checked the registry key you have posted, it only includes the configurations of all the desktop icons. There is no value corresponding to the specific icon`s position.

Best regards

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