switching users rearranges icons

[dpinger]

XP Pro and XP Office with a dual screen monitor. I have icons splattered across both monitors. That's why I have two!. No virus issue as I update almost daily. Have been using one user until the other day when I added a few others to begin fooling with security settings.
Now, whenever I switch users or log off a user and then switch back to original user, all of my icons get moved to the #1 monitor. And the odd thing is that the icons get smacked on top of each other so I have to pull them apart. I have been fooling around with this for a few days now and the only thing I have been able to do is a work around. If I go into user accounts and change how a user logs on and off to the classic logon prompt like in 2000 everything works fine and the icons don't move when switching users. Is this a glitch in XP? Has anyone ever had same problem or is my XP messed up. Everything else in system seems to run perfectly. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated

 

[marcdoyle]

What are you using to split the display? If you are using NView from the nvidia detonator drivers, there are still lots of bugs in their software, although the latest 42.01 drivers are supposed to be the best yet.

 

[dpinger]

I'm using an NVidea geForce 4 MX 440 for dual display. There is a nview.dll in the drivers. The file version of the dll is 6.13.10.3087. And the driver version is 3.0.8.7

 

[marcdoyle]

Ok then, i would advise you to download the 42.01 drivers from

http://www.guru3d.com

and install these. You may also need to download the 30xx to 40xx fix to enable the control panel. Let me know if the new drivers correct the problem.

One other reason this may occur, is that the nview settings run at startup after you log on, so if you have multiple users the settings aren't loaded on the logon screen, hence when you log on, the multiple display is not initialized by the time the icons locate themselves, causing them to all appear on the first display. You might be able to fix this by moving the registry key that loads nview into the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunServices section of the registry, which runs before the logon screen appears.