Desktop icons move to primary monitor after reboot

If you have desktop icons on a secondary monitor, Windows will sometimes move them back to the primary monitor when you restart your system. The following multi-monitor utilities have a fix for this problem: Matrox PowerDesk, PowerStrip, UltraMon. You can also use any other utility that can save/restore the position of desktop icons, for example EzDesk.

In addition, here's a manual fix for the problem (thanks to Cory):

1. Open Notepad and type the following:
   REGEDIT4
   
   [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Old WorkAreas]
   "NoOfOldWorkAreas"=dword:00000001
   
   
2. Save the file as "c:\icon.reg"
   
   
3. Open "c:\autoexec.bat" and type this at the very bottom of the file:
   regedit c:\icon.reg

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