We currently use roaming profiles and having issues with Desktop Icon
arrangements not saving.

Scenerio:
User logs into Computer A and sets his icons a cerntain arrangement. Then
user logs off. User then logs into Computer B and has to arrange icons again.
But once they arrange the icons on THAT paticular station it stays. Currently
users have to arrange icons at least once on each station to their
preferences. Adding Icons and other changes always save though. Just not icon
arrangement.

We are on Windows 2000 Server Active Directory. Is this how Roaming Profiles
work? Or is something not working correclty? I read of issues on NT 4.0 but
could not find anything for 2000 server. I appreciate any help you can give
me.

Check to see if the users are logged on to more than one workstation or
terminal session at once.  If so, that is your answer.  The reason being
that the newest time stamp "wins" when writing to the stored profile.  In
the past, I've had a rather difficult time explaining these concepts to
users who had the same problem as you.  They also had "reappearing" icons,
etc.

Thanks fo ryour reply Paul, but when I heard of the complaint I fired up my
VMWARE box and tested the same scenerio using 3 operating systems. I made
sure to log off each one after rearranging the icons in a different way.
Regardless of how many times I logged on or logged or in any order of the
three, the icon arrangement stayed the arrangement I put on each box. I was
hoping this was not built by design. Everthing else saves with profile
(example: new icons, favorites, desktop schemes) just not icon arrangement.

Thank You

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Reading your post it looks to me like you are saying that the icons do stay
where they are.  Which is correct.  Icon placement is stored in the profile.

Does it store different icons arrangements based on which machine you logged
into and how you arranged them on that paticular machine?

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If your profile doesn't roam, yes.  If your profile roams, these settings
roam.

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