Question about desktop toolbars

I use dual video cards and 4 LCD monitors for my work computer.

I make pretty extensive use of custom toolbars on my desktop. For instance, I drag the quick launch off of the taskbar and place it at the top of my monitor. I also created a "My Computer" toolbar and placed that at the top of another monitor, etc.. In all I have 3 or 4 toolbars at any given time. I dock them and set them to always on top, and everything works great.

My issue/question is this:

When I remote desktop into this machine, I only get 1 monitor of course, so it moves all my toolbars to the single monitor, then when I actually log into the machine, I have to reposition all my toolbars back to their correct places. It is pretty annoying, as I remote to the machine from home a lot.

I figured the actual layout information for these toolbars is either kept in the registry, or in a config file somewhere on the system. What I want to do, is find where these values are stored, so I can cache them, and write a small app to fix the layout programmatically.

So does anyone know where data about your desktop toolbars is stored on the system?

All of the available infor on toolbars that I'm using is under HKEY CLASSES ROOT (including the class ids)

what about their actual positions on the desktop? That is what I am after. I want to cache those, so that when they do get screwed up via remote desktop, I can run a quick script to put them back where I want them.

Using regmon, it looks like the values gets stored in the subkeys under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop

Yes internet explorer... not sure why, but likely due to the tight integration internet explorer and windows have/had for so long.

However so far no luck in restoring values to get the toolbars how I want them.. still playing around though.

Use regmon and while it's running, move your toolbars around and see what values are being changed.

i tried that, but it didn't seem to work... or perhaps this isn't something you can easily do by editing the registry. I filtered to only show reg writes, and the only time I get activity is when I dock/undock a toolbar. Nothing for the actual x/y position when it is freefloating.

Even so, what I did was, export the entire key that showed writes to it while the toolbar was docked. I then undocked the toolbar. I then restored the regkey that had changed, but no effect on the toolbar or its position on the desktop.