This desktop sits in a nearby therapy facility for the amusement of
the in-patients. I see that there is a small window in the middle of
the desktop screen that just can't be removed. Or, at least I can't
find out how. The window seems likely to be Google Mail related.

The user doesn't have administrator privileges, and the administrator
login requires a password which no one seems to know.
Thus I can't run msconfig.

Any idea how I can erase it for good?
Thanks
Duke

R.click on the desktop,properties,desktop,web tab,locate & run the
"desktop clean up wizard".....

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> This desktop sits in a nearby therapy facility for the amusement of
> the in-patients. I see that there is a small window in the middle of
> the desktop screen that just can't be removed. Or, at least I can't
> find out how. The window seems likely to be Google Mail related.
>
> The user doesn't have administrator privileges, and the administrator
> login requires a password which no one seems to know.
> Thus I can't run msconfig.
>
> Any idea how I can erase it for good?
> Thanks
> Duke
> .
>

Right click on the desktop. Then click "Refresh"

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> This desktop sits in a nearby therapy facility for the amusement of
> the in-patients. I see that there is a small window in the middle of
> the desktop screen that just can't be removed. Or, at least I can't
> find out how. The window seems likely to be Google Mail related.
>
> The user doesn't have administrator privileges, and the administrator
> login requires a password which no one seems to know.
> Thus I can't run msconfig.
>
> Any idea how I can erase it for good?
> Thanks
> Duke

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:59:02 -0800, Andrew E. <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> R.click on the desktop,properties,desktop,web tab,locate & run the
> "desktop clean up wizard".....

Thanks - I did do the 'properties' thing, but I don't remember seeing
the "desktop clean up wizard". I'll look again today, when I
re-visit.

Duke

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:31:14 -0500, "Richard Urban"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Right click on the desktop. Then click "Refresh"


Thanks

Duke

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:36:24 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>It is definitely a window, is it, not just a small image loaded as a
>wallpaper?


Seems to be. I couldn't enter Control Panel to see.

Duke

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:18:57 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>
>If you right-click the desktop, properties, desktop, does it show in the
>little model of the desktop?


I'll check later when I return to nursing home. My wife there
suddenly had to be taken back to a hospital so I am now busy
otherwise. Please be patient.
Thanks

Duke

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:18:57 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>
>If you right-click the desktop, properties, desktop, does it show in the
>little model of the desktop?


I stopped and took a quick look. Right click on desktop produces the
familiar 'display properties' window, in which of course you can alter
background, resolutions, etc. BTW, the little window says 'Google
Mobile'.
Back to hospital now - cya a little later.
Duke

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:23:03 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
>writes:
>>On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:18:57 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
>><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>If you right-click the desktop, properties, desktop, does it show in the
>>>little model of the desktop?
>>
>>
>>I stopped and took a quick look. Right click on desktop produces the
>>familiar 'display properties' window, in which of course you can alter
>>background, resolutions, etc. BTW, the little window says 'Google
>>Mobile'.
>[]
>If from the "display properties" window you select the "Desktop" tab,
>does the picture show the desktop with your little window in it?
>
>I'm still trying to establish it isn't a small image that's somehow got
>loaded as wallpaper. However, I don't think so now (though still worth
>checking).

I don't think so. I scanned the wallpaper and background choices and
do not see that image anywhere. I think Google Mobile is the culprit
but I had nothing to do with that, nor can I seem to get rid of that
either. Probably because I do not have Admin privs. Oh well.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> This desktop sits in a nearby therapy facility for the amusement of
> the in-patients. I see that there is a small window in the middle of
> the desktop screen that just can't be removed. Or, at least I can't
> find out how. The window seems likely to be Google Mail related.
>
> The user doesn't have administrator privileges, and the administrator
> login requires a password which no one seems to know.
> Thus I can't run msconfig.
>

One possibility is that some comedian has incorporated this window as part
of the wallpaper. Since it isn't actually a window you can never close it.