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Poco Loco
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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:06:42 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/5/2014 1:09 AM,
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On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:15:58 -0500, Poco Loco
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On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:45:45 -0500,
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On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco
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My wife, on her Vista machine, lost all her icons on the desktop. Any idea what caused that? I don't
like the idea of playing with her Vista machine.
That is the insidious "desktop cleanup" wizard.
Right click a blank spot on the desk top, click properties, then
desktop, then customize desktop and uncheck the cleanup wizard box.
I think your icons are gone tho.
I am not sure why Bill Gates decided we needed a clean desk top.
I had the same problem with IBM management. ;-)
No, Dick got it right. They're all back.
OK that must be another "Vista" experience that Bill thought you
needed to have.
It's retained in Win 7 although the process is a little different. I
haven't checked Win 8. It's just a simple option to either display all
the icons on your desktop or not.
With:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvbgi6zq2cxjt3w/with%20icons.jpg
Without:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkg0qjl2wf3oebf/without%20icons.jpg
It would seem unnecessary. Except for a few, most are placed there by the user, and if placed there
during a program installation, they're easily removable. For my wife, it was a 'nightmare' when she
lost all her icons (almost literally). She woke me about 1 AM, telling me she still couldn't fix the
problem. I told her to wait until morning...we'd fix it. The next morning I right clicked everything
I could think of, but somehow missed the 'Blank Spot'!
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