Icons on desktop

[Jan E]

I installed something (not sure of name)to access some
microscopy pix. When I went to turn off computer, I
found the 27 program icons on my desktop. The program
for the pix was, apparently, IMAGELIB.DLL. I removed the
IMAGELIB.DLL to the recycle bin but the icons remain on
my desktop. How can I remove these without harm to XP or
my computer? Thank you.

 

[Wesley VogelX]

Jan;
Try this: Right click each icon, one at a time/click Delete/a window will
pop up/click Delete Shortcut/repeat.
Or: Hold down the Control key while you left click each one/when you have
however many highlighted, right click one/click Delete/Yes. Be carefull that
you DO NOT highlight something you don't want to get rid of. If you do get rid
of some thing by accident, find it in the Recycle Bin and right click it and
click Restore.
Hope this helps.
Wes

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

Find folder called Desktop, probably in C:. U'll see
all icons there. Highlight offensive ones using CTRL
and SHIFT keys, hit DELETE. If these r shortcuts,
deleting them can NEVER do harm. IF they're files, well
maybe..

4 shortcuts, if u dont need target click PROPERTIES >
FindTarget > DELETE will nix the file it points to.

HTH - Larry

BTW- trick I use to delete files I'm not certain about
without really deleting is to rename file to file¿ or
file» or fileƒ. They're easy to find since no OS/app
uses special chars. Then I wait a week or so to see if
problems & if not, then delete them.

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:41:25 -0700, "Jan E"

|I installed something (not sure of name)to access some
|microscopy pix. When I went to turn off computer, I
|found the 27 program icons on my desktop. The program
|for the pix was, apparently, IMAGELIB.DLL. I removed the
|IMAGELIB.DLL to the recycle bin but the icons remain on
|my desktop. How can I remove these without harm to XP or
|my computer? Thank you.


Any advice given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS. Personal attacks, nitpicking & criticism
of anything but content will NOT be responded to. Those
posters should spend their time taking the test @
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ocdtrt1.htm

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Jan,

Sounds more like you installed that program to the desktop folder.

See if there is an entry in add & remove to uninstall it. Otherwise, try a
System Restore to a day prior to this happening.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone