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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Performance and Maintainance / July 2008Cannot Remove Icons From Desktop
I have been all over the internet looking for help - needless to say, haven't found it yet. My computer is 3mo olds. I'm running Vista Home Premium (pre-installed). The computer is a Compaq Presario, 1024 MB memory, 320 GB hard drive. When I first got the machine I removed all those ding-a-ling shortcuts that are always on new computers - no problems. Two days ago, since Vista is still fairly foreign to me, I was exploring. The next thing I know I had icons on my desktop for Control Panel, Internet Explorer, Network, Computer and a folder named Public. The problem now is I am not able to get these blasted things off my desktop! Vista will not let me delete them, I cannot uncheck them from the start menu. I've tried changing the settings in the customizing & personalizing screen. I have done the restore thing for two different time periods. I did a full scan of computer. I have posted on practically every message board I could find (most of didn't know as much as I do - which is not much!) Microsoft says contact computer manufacturer, Compaq says need to contact Microsoft........ -- I saw in the help & support where I can restore my computer back to the way it was when I bought it, but I really don't think I want to do that. If you folks have any suggestions for me, I would really appreciate some help before I have to do anything drastic. stitchfancy Fear not stitchfancy, There are icons and then there are icons. Whast you got there are the latter. Right-click on an empty spot on your desktop, then click on the "Personalize" choice at the bottom of the popup. Look at the left panel of the personalize menu, the green and blue part, and click on the "Change desktop items" choice. Unclick those little buggers what you don't want. You're done. Almost. The icon named "Public" is a different matter. You should be able to delete that normally. That is, unless that has somehow become your "User Files" folder. Did you by any chance use the name "Public" as your logon name? Is there a little curved arrow on the bottom left of the icon? Let us know how it goes after you get rid of the other icons. Cheers  SignatureHogtowner Hi! There is a curved arrow on the bottom of ALL my desktop icons.How do i get rid of them all ? thank you much, celpusa > Fear not stitchfancy, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers Hello CelpUsa, This will show you how to remove the shortcut arrows. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67615-shortcut-arrow.html If a question you wanted to post is not the same or very close to the original question posted, then you should post it as a new post instead. This way this thread stays on topic, and you should get more replies and help for your question in it's thread. It just helps to give help to everyone that needs it. ;) Hope this helps, Shawn CelpUsa;790611 Wrote: > Hi! There is a curved arrow on the bottom of ALL my desktop icons.How do > i > get rid of them all ? thank you much, celpusa SignatureBrink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.* > Hi! There is a curved arrow on the bottom of ALL my desktop icons.How do i > get rid of them all ? thank you much, celpusa You've already gotten an answer as to how. However, my recommendation is that you do *not* do this. The arrows serve an important function--providing quick visual identification of a shortcut. If you remove the arrows, you run the substantial risk that sooner or later you will delete something you wanted to keep, thinking that you were just deleting a shortcut to it. SignatureKen Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup Just right click on the desktop and, from the drop down menu, select Personalize. In the left hand pane of the personalize window, Click 'change desktop icons'. The desktop settings window will open. Remove the 'tick' marks from the Control panel, Internet Explorer, Network, Computer and user files then Click OK. The icons should now disappear. Signature-- John Barnett MVP Associate Expert Windows Desktop Experience Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. > I have been all over the internet looking for help - needless to say, > haven't [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > stitchfancy Thanks guys, sorry but been there, done that. Doesn't work. Vista has grown a mind of it's own - I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone :) Oh yes, there was one other thing I forgot to list - I'm also getting a pop-up when logging on saying that my anti-virus protection is turned off - Wrong - it is running full speed ahead. Signaturestitchfancy > I have been all over the internet looking for help - needless to say, haven't > found it yet. My computer is 3mo olds. I'm running Vista Home Premium [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > stitchfancy The following "...I'm also getting a pop-up when logging on...." may turn out to be most important! You did check for malware and so forth? > Thanks guys, sorry but been there, done that. Doesn't work. Vista has > grown [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> >> stitchfancy Stichfancy, What A/V are you running? Just in case it is Kaspersky, turn off the Registry Guard under Proactive defense. It is buggy, and they know it. In any case, any such guard is among the first things I would disable/uninstall at least long enough to see if the problem goes away Sorry I missed the part about you already doing what I suggested. Would everyone else please stop quoting posts that are on the same page as your response. There is no need to quote the whole thing anyway, is there, unless you can't keep track of what the post was about? Hang in there, stitchfancy. SignatureHogtowner >Would everyone else please stop quoting posts that are on the same page >as your response. There is no need to quote the whole thing anyway, is >there, unless you can't keep track of what the post was about? You are clueless. Note all the posts that are on the page YOU are on. Note how many of them say "guest" or the number of posts is "n/a". Know what that means???? THEY DON'T USE THAT PITIFUL SYSTEM that you are using, and thus don't see the posts. YOU need to start quoting what you are replying to so that everyone ELSE can see what you are talking about. Paul - I agree totally with you - nothing more exasperating than not knowing to what a response is referring. >>Would everyone else please stop quoting posts that are on the same page >>as your response. There is no need to quote the whole thing anyway, is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > YOU need to start quoting what you are replying to so that everyone > ELSE can see what you are talking about. > Would everyone else please stop quoting posts that are on the same page > as your response. There is no need to quote the whole thing anyway, is > there, unless you can't keep track of what the post was about? No! The "same page as your response" that you see is not what most of the rest of us see. You are using one of those reprehensible web-based forums to access a Windows public newsgroup hosted by Microsoft and suck up posts here. You are in the newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance, whether you realize it or not. Most of us here use a newsreader to access this newsgroup, and most of us don't keep already-messages. The result is that a message without a quote is incomprehensible to most of us. Moreover quoting in newsgroup posts is standard netiquette. If you want to be a good newsgroup citizen, learn to *always* quote the message you are responding to, and start participating properly, directly in the newsgroup. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows. See http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm You'll find that it's a far better experience. SignatureKen Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup Mr Blake, I couldn't agree with you more. On the other hand, I couldn't agree with you less. I just can't agree with you at all. You think the "proper" way to participate is to repeat what the last person said almost verbatim because you cannot be bothered to retrace the history of the posts. It is not just inefficient and irritating. SignatureHogtowner >Mr Blake, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >person said almost verbatim because you cannot be bothered to retrace >the history of the posts. It is not just inefficient and irritating. You're a blithering moron and you have no idea what you're talking about. > Mr Blake, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > person said almost verbatim because you cannot be bothered to retrace > the history of the posts. It is not just inefficient and irritating. Have it your own way. I don't care at all. Just don't be surprised when nobody understands your messages. SignatureKen Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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