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Re: please help! Desktop/icon problems         

Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize · Group Profile
Author: Wesley Vogel
Date: Mar 31, 2007 12:17

Hi Matthew,

This link is no longer good
http://lacollege.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000536&l=497f8&id=1208790069
so I cannot look at the picture again.
> I can't even right-click on my
> screen and have my display options come up. How do i get back to normal?

Nothing happens when you right click on your desktop?

I am not sure where to start. One of the options in the right click,
context menu is Show Desktop Icons, this may have somehow gotten unchecked.
If that happens your desktop icons are Hidden.

Go here...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Read the instructions at the top.
Scroll down to and right click
72. Enable/Disable Desktop Icons
Save Taget As and save to your My Documents folder so that you can find it.

enabledisabledesktopicons.vbs is the file that you want. You can run
enabledisabledesktopicons.vbs to hide or show the Desktop icons.
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When you right click the desktop there may just be a huge delay. Try it and
wait a while.

If there is a huge delay see these...

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:D0C6FC11-BF7E-478A-9872-A784039CC82F@microsoft.com,
Matthew discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Thank you Wesley, you were right, i was able to get the toolbar off of my
> taskbar the way you said to, but i was not able to find a unused desktop
> shortcut. Even with the desktop off my taskbar, it's like my background is
> still dead, i can't drag anything on to it, i can't click on it. The bad
> part is, when i'm looking at all of my 'desktop' options, there is
> nothing about toggling it between a toolbar and the actual background
> screen, it's not setup to know a difference.
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