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TP4 and ADSL
In the Display Properties menu, click Customize Desktop at the bottom, click Web, and make sure the box that says Lock desktop items is UNchecked. see this nice pretty background, and then the Icons on the desktop have this UGLY Background color around them like this puke green or this sick looking gray etc.

Debian menus policy
Sparda UseLinkToEm...@www.windowsforumz.com microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain "" wrote: I am writing about a computer in our office that has boxes around all the text below the icons on the desktop. This is NOT just when highlighted, but all icons, all the time. It rings familiar to me but I can not

How can I delete colored square box around icon names?
Simply enter calendar events into proper date boxes as with a wall calendar. Up to 20 entries per day can be placed into the calendar. You can do the same with the Desktop Icons too. It's ideal for security, just close the program to hide the Icons then, via a Hotkey, reveal them when you want to. Desktop.

Selecting multiple icons on desktop
There may, however, be a work-around satisfactory to you. The most common reason people want to get rid of it is because they prefer the "Explorer" view to Check the box next to "Hide icons when desktop is viewed as Web page." JAE See: http://www.thelema.org ------------------------------------- "All you have

any more ?
That would explain it, if you have a fair number of icons on the desktop then you will notice that they move from where you have put them, Even when I did have loads of icons Happy disking. no keyboard minefield around the spacebar to interrupt the user while typing. What? Have you got some kind of idiot hands?

.pwd
I could drag/drop, move icons around the desktop just like the book said. Somewhere along the way I've lost the ability to drag and drop icons from the startup desktop. I can open folders, and move the folders around the screen. I do have auto-arrange unchecked. When I right-click, I get the menu box, but the icon

Non-transparent icons on desktop
Installation I popped the DVD in the box and saw the "Install Ubuntu" choice at the top, hit return. Since I did this at work, I continued to work. Anyway, I played around some, and found, in the menu, a "Install this to hard drive", which I choose. The big icon on the desktop would have worked.

icons jumping around
Dads just rung me to tell me all the icons have dissapeared from his desktop when he was fiddling around. How does he get them back??? You could try restoring yesterdays registry backup. If so Right-Click go to Properties, go to Effects tab, un-tick 'Hide icons when the desktop is viewed as a Web page' box.

8-bit GUI desktop organizers and launchers
As I was customizing, I found the Vortex desktop I use at home and decided to use it at work also. But after selecting it, the text under my Desktop Icons changed colors and a colored rectangular "box" appears around the text. The text is usually white and stands out against the solid color "box" that is generated

Desktop font question
Go here and type in the search box: magistr to get information on it and the removal tool. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html/ -- Brian A. Whenever I move the cursor over my icons on desktop, the icons start jumping around. I have already checked for viruses and haven't found any.

Ground Rules for a Non-Monopolistic Information Technology Market
Start Menu Order ---------------- With Windows 98, you can drag items around directly on the Start menu to change the order or which sub-menu an item is located on. In the Open box, type SendTo, and then press ENTER. Use the right mouse button to drag the item's icon into the SendTo window.

How to hide Icons on desktop?
Now, compare this with the utility of being able to install, move and remove software by just dragging a single icon around in the file manager. .... I don't personally like icons on the desktop, although that option is available also. Simply drag the binary from the filebrowser to the desktop, and select "link to"

ProDOS Plus revisited
Stefan Hundhammer stefanhundham...@my-deja.com comp windows x In article <MPG.147303452ce966d5989...@news.siol.net>, marvin <gloda...@yahoo.com> wrote: Is it possible to have icons on a desktop with transparent background color rather than a colored sqare box around ? Yes. This is something your window manager or

Paradox Vision Revisited
I have 58 icons on my desktop...is that normal? The *real* question is: if they're icons, why do they have text underneath them? Isn't the purpose of an icon to be a visual representation of something? Might as well just have little text boxes scattered around.

"My Docs" Freezes
After playing around with a XP Theme , after I have removed it, I now no longer have a few of the desktop Icons like the Trash one, IE and My ones, they are the standard default flag one. The Affects Desktop Icons are empty.. I have tried TweakUI to restore them and clearing the iconcache but no luck.. Thanks..

Desktop Icons
Yoosik Youm yy...@acs-popmail.uchicago.edu microsoft public inetexplorer ie4 After installing IE4.0., there comes weird colored (the color is the color set under the DISPLAY PROPERTIES>APPEARANCE> desktop item color) square around the name of icons in the desktop. As long as I use any wallpaper, it seems so ugly.

8-bit GUI desktop organizers and launchers
Typed Cmd into run box, dragged the file into the run box, dos window opened, had to drag the file into the dos window and pressed enter.....same darn message again. (This has happened before...infrequently.....with other files....never found a way around it). "David Candy" <da...@mvps.org> wrote in message

WindowBlinds 2.0: Aqua for Windows screenshots
... computer" icon, Shut Down command at the start menu, I can't add icons at the desktop or change desktop settings, etc. I want to configure the accounts for my friends that way. Can sombody teach me how and the best way of doing so? My friends just cannot stop snooping around my computer. Please help. Thank you.

Cannot drag icons
A status dialog box titled "Start Menu Shortcuts" appears during the rebuilding process. When it is complete, you are returned to the desktop. Re: Quick Launch toolbar sort order I can't adjust the sort order of the icons on my Quick Launch toolbar. If I move them around they just go back to the old order after

HELP!!!!!! Desktop icons
Ron Badour rwbad...@texas.net microsoft public win95 setup Allan R. Unsworth wrote: How do I backup the layout of the icons on the desktop ? Every few weeks the icons move around, and it take ages to get them back into the correct positions. Is there a file I can make a copy of ? Win 95 only saves the window