| >Hi Don,
|
| >The guy I was helping had the same thing happening and even more, as I
| >explained. In his case, he could re-create it every time he either opened
| >Outlook and/or IE.
|
| >Keep us posted. BTW, if you are running SP2, take it to the SP2IE beta
| >groups.
|
| I spent two days sitting in Mathematica doing all the calculations
| and getting the presentation exactly correct. Asked Mathematica
| to export the whole thing as html. That created a folder on the
| desktop with index.html, two dozen graphics files and a .css file.
| I closed out Mathematica and saved all my work. Drag and drop right
| mouse move all those from the folder onto the desktop. Ftp all
| these from the desktop to the web server. Open up IE using the
| shortcut on the desktop and confirm that the presentation is ready.
| Everything seems fine. Close IE. Everything seems fine. Hold
| down the control key and one at a time carefully select all those
| html and graphics files I had just just ftp'ed. Tap the delete
| key... and it blows away the html file, the graphics files, the IE
| icon on the desktop AND the folder with all my source files I've
| spent two days inside of Mathematica making! No, those last two
| were not selected when I tapped that key.
|
| And what did they do with "shift left mouse click"? It used to
| work, under Win98, in a way that would let me select just about
| the group of files on the desktop that I wanted. XP has changed
| this and I can't find any sensible way to use it to select the
| group of files I want. It seems to select only a single file
| when I hold down the shift key or it selects what looks like an
| arbitrary collection of files.
|
| No, I'm not running SP2.
|
| An article in IEEE Computer that said it was estimated that Windows
| XP shipped with half a million bugs. An estimated bug per page of
| code after all the testing and "trusted computing."
|
| >--
| >All the Best,
| >Kelly
|
| >MS-MVP Win98/XP
| >[AE-Windows XP]
|
| >Troubleshooting Windows XP
| >
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
|
| >Utilities for Windows XP
| >
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util
|
|
|
| >> Definitely didn't manually remove it from the start menu, it might not
| >have
| >> ever even been in the start menu list, but never used from there, isn't in
| >> the quick launch bar. I don't think the office toolbar is even installed.
| >>
| >> >Once IE was used all Pinned items on the Start Menu etc, disappeared
| >along
| >> >with Desktop icons (IE and Office). Good luck!
| >>
| >> I've got the classic view of Start turned on (so pinned stuff either
| >doesn't
| >> exist or is out there where I couldn't touch it anyway) but never run
| >> anything from there, other than rarely going into All Programs.
| >Everything
| >> I use sits as as an icon on the desktop or one of a few items in the Quick
| >> launch bar.
| >>
| >> It just did it again an hour ago. The IE icon vanished and I never left
| >> the desktop. Some "feature" somewhere is killing this icon. It doesn't
| >> end up in the recycling bin. It has to be another bug somewhere.
| >>
| >> >--
| >> >All the Best,
| >> >Kelly
| >>
| >> >MS-MVP Win98/XP
| >> >[AE-Windows XP]
| >>
| >> >Troubleshooting Windows XP
| >> >
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
| >>
| >> >Utilities for Windows XP
| >> >
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util
| >>
| >>
| >> >| >> >> >| I just mean, is there something like "read only" that
| >> >> >| would keep an icon on the desktop from being deleted
| >> >> >| or at least ask for confirmation before it was deleted
| >> >> >| off the desktop?
| >> >> >|
| >> >> >| My first guess was to make them read-only.
| >> >> >| Wrong. That doesn't do anything to keep them from
| >> >> >| being deleted with an accidental click of the mouse
| >> >> >| or tap of the delete key, or other ways that I haven't
| >> >> >| been able to figure out.
| >> >> >|
| >> >> >| Thank you
| >> >>
| >> >> >Don,
| >> >>
| >> >> > To enable "delete confirmation" messages boxes...
| >> >>
| >> >> >On the desktop
| >> >> > right-click Recycle Bin
| >> >> > Properties.
| >> >> > [Y] Display delete confirmation dialog
| >> >>
| >> >> That is already checked. Something else is somehow letting icons
| >> >> get deleted with no confirmation, I think. This has happened several
| >> >> times in the last couple of days with the Internet Explorer icon
| >> >> on the desktop without any confirmation message. The first time or
| >> >> two I couldn't figure it out. The next time I was sure it happened.
| >> >> (No it isn't a virus, nothing gets past the layers of protection here)
| >> >> How do you lock down an icon?
| >> >>
| >> >> Thank you
Don,
Could you check this setting in TweakUI (for XP) - navigate to...
[+] Explorer
"Settings"
[_] Manipulate connected files as a unit
If TweakUI is not installed on your system, then download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Note: V2.10.0.0 needs Windows XP SP 1
If you do not have SP1, the earlier version of TweakUI can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe