icon positions

Sometimes your going to want to sort the icons on your desktop by file 'type' or the date 'modified' for example, but you might not want to disrupt the arrangement that they are currently in. Well download this tiny little patch for WindowsXP (layout.zip 4.11k) and unzip the download and place Layout.dll in the system32 directory in the WINDOWS folder on your hard drive. This is an example of the path where you want to place the file C:/WINDOWS/system32/
Next double click on the Layout.reg file to automatically make the appropriate changes to your registry. Now place your desktop icons exactly where you want them and right click on the Recycle Bin and select 'Save Desktop Icon Layout' Great, now move them around and right click on Recycle Bin again and select 'Restore Desktop Icon Layout'. Bingo!