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Do you mean in the registry, if so you need to be more helpfull. what O/S are you using? Like win95, 98, me, or what ever. It is not easy to get things to do what you want in any windows programs. And messing around with the registry is like doing too many things at once, it will just get worse.

Do you want to change the order of arrange icon on your desktop?
Why take the risk to use registry?!
Use it only when you are expert!

A simple and safe way to achieve your purpose.
left-click on the desktop and a menu is pop up. Then choose the "arrange icons" --> the order can be chosen.

I have searched through both the registry, and Microsoft Technet, and cannot find specific information on how to do this in the registry.

The simple way, is in windows explorer, open a folder and set it to date order.
Go to folder options, and click the button to make all folders like the current folder.
NOTE: this will also change control panel and my computer to match the folder view.

This is what I found in my search: Hope it helps.

Technet article on the Win 98 registry.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/win98/reskit/part6/wrkc31.asp

View Preferences and the Registry

This section describes how Windows 98 stores View preferences for the desktop and windows that you open. View preferences include icon size, position, layout.

Windows 98 stores up to 28 entries containing View preferences for the desktop and windows that you open in a most-recently-used (MRU) list. When you close a window, the View preferences are written to subkeys with the names 0, 1, 2, and so on, located in the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Streams

The MRU list in the following registry key defines the order ofthe 28 entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \StreamMRU

When the desktop or one of the windows is no longer included in the MRU list, the desktop or window uses the default settings the next time the desktop or window is redrawn or refreshed.

When you make a change to the desktop or a window, the View preferences for the desktop or window are moved to the top of the MRU list. That item remains on the MRU list until it reaches the 28th spot. When an item reaches the 28th spot and another window is closed, the 28th item is removed from the MRU list.

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