took laptop to repair depot for warrenty replacement of defective top cover.
they replaced cover, updated bios and ran dos bases hdw. diag. when i got
machine home i noticed an ADMINSTRATIVE TOOLS(control pannel) icon on the
desktop. it does not have the blue arrow that a short cut has. control
pannel has an ADM TOOLS icon also. both work but i dont know how one got on
to the desktop. i called the repair depot they said they did not do it.

trouble is i cannot delete it or move it (dont like access to that stuff on
the desktop) if i right click i dont have the option to delete or to open
properities. cant drag and drop anywhere even tried putting it in new folder
no go. i cannot move it any where.

how do i get it off the desktop????

unfortunatly OS is vista buisness but could not figure out how to post on
that forum please help
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nithinim

Try control-panel,display,desktop,customize,locate & run the "desktop clean-
up wizard".This should remove the shortcut.

"nethinim" wrote:

> took laptop to repair depot for warrenty replacement of defective top cover.
> they replaced cover, updated bios and ran dos bases hdw. diag. when i got
> machine home i noticed an ADMINSTRATIVE TOOLS(control pannel) icon on the
> desktop. it does not have the blue arrow that a short cut has. control
> pannel has an ADM TOOLS icon also. both work but i dont know how one got on
> to the desktop. i called the repair depot they said they did not do it.
>
> trouble is i cannot delete it or move it (dont like access to that stuff on
> the desktop) if i right click i dont have the option to delete or to open
> properities. cant drag and drop anywhere even tried putting it in new folder
> no go. i cannot move it any where.
>
> how do i get it off the desktop????
>
> unfortunatly OS is vista buisness but could not figure out how to post on
> that forum please help
> --
> nithinim

thanks andrew it is however vista buisness not xp i could not figure out how
to post on vista's forum. it is not a shortcut it does not have the little
arrow in the bottom. any help or thoughts appreciated
--
nithinim


"Andrew E." wrote:

> Try control-panel,display,desktop,customize,locate & run the "desktop clean-
> up wizard".This should remove the shortcut.
>
> "nethinim" wrote:
>
> > took laptop to repair depot for warrenty replacement of defective top cover.
> > they replaced cover, updated bios and ran dos bases hdw. diag. when i got
> > machine home i noticed an ADMINSTRATIVE TOOLS(control pannel) icon on the
> > desktop. it does not have the blue arrow that a short cut has. control
> > pannel has an ADM TOOLS icon also. both work but i dont know how one got on
> > to the desktop. i called the repair depot they said they did not do it.
> >
> > trouble is i cannot delete it or move it (dont like access to that stuff on
> > the desktop) if i right click i dont have the option to delete or to open
> > properities. cant drag and drop anywhere even tried putting it in new folder
> > no go. i cannot move it any where.
> >
> > how do i get it off the desktop????
> >
> > unfortunatly OS is vista buisness but could not figure out how to post on
> > that forum please help
> > --
> > nithinim

Link to it below.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US

nethinim wrote:

> thanks andrew it is however vista buisness not xp i could not figure out how
> to post on vista's forum. it is not a shortcut it does not have the little
> arrow in the bottom. any help or thoughts appreciated