Manipulating the positions of desktop icons

Question

I am currently trying to retrieve the list of icons from my desktop to change their locations and / or hide them as well as display others.

I tried to get the

Answer 1

The shell window hierarchy is not documented nor stable. "ProgMan" is usually the parent of "SHELLDLL_DefView" but if you change to slideshow wallpaper it can also be "WorkerW".

It is much better to inspect/manipulate the desktop with the documented shell COM interfaces: IShellWindows, IShellBrowser, IFolderView and IShellFolder.