On my desktop, in the top left of center a little, I have two items
that look to be grey'ed-out icons. The labels underneath the icons
are 'Reply' and 'Ctrl+R. Double clicking on them does nothing.
Right clicking on them produces the same window that I get when I
right click an unused area of the desktop. So I guess they are not
icons. It's almost as if they are burned into the screen, but I sure
hope not. If I open a full-screen window which covers that area of
the screen, they show through that window.

Am I in deep S?
-GECKO

"gecko" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On my desktop, in the top left of center a little, I have two items
> that look to be grey'ed-out icons. The labels underneath the icons
> are 'Reply' and 'Ctrl+R. Double clicking on them does nothing.
> Right clicking on them produces the same window that I get when I
> right click an unused area of the desktop. So I guess they are not
> icons. It's almost as if they are burned into the screen, but I sure
> hope not. If I open a full-screen window which covers that area of
> the screen, they show through that window.
>

It is possible that a comedian has been at work. It was a popular activity
when Windows first appeared, to copy someone's desktop to a bitmap file and
then mount it as their wallpaper. You could click on the 'icons' all day
and nothing would happen, because they weren't actually icons.