On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:01:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 2/5/2014 8:51 AM, Poco Loco wrote:

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:06:42 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 2/5/2014 1:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:15:58 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:45:45 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:



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'!



Harry makes a good point about Windows though. I just fired up my
other laptop that runs on Windows 7 Home Premium. I haven't used it
since the end of October. There were over 30 "important" updates to
download and install, a process that took about half an hour.

All I was doing was looking for a picture that was on it for a project I
am working on.



I have noticed a great decline in the number of XP updates coming down the pike. Either it's mostly
fixed, or MS has just given up. Or, maybe I shut the notification off - if that's possible.

Maybe Apple just doesn't notify the user when its downloading and installing an update.