Vista - No settings are being saved!?!

None of the settings I put in place stay that way after a restart. I am
using a Dell laptop with a external monitor attached.

I tell Picasa (a free program from google) not to place a icon in the system
tray.

I tell it where I want the volume icon where to appear when used (provided
by dell - part of the quickset program)

I tell it the resolution and location of the external monitor.

After I restart it is as though I have made no changes. Picasa is back in
the system tray, the quickset volume returns to its origanal location and the
monitor goes back to its first settings.

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"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I
will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10