Unwanted Icons

[Bronco Billy]

Can any body help?

I have recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox and for some reason all of
the supporting programme files have appeared on my desktop as icons.

I have right clicked and deleted them but they always come back when I
launch Firefox.

I have made sure that when I download Firefox that it is being saved in
program files.

Any help appreciated..............BB

 

[Fitz]

You didn't by chance install Firefox into your desktop folder did you? If
so, just uninstall Firefox. Download and install Firefox to a directory in
C:\Program Files.
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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Bronco,

Type %appdata% in Start/Run.

Which folder is opened?

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Bronco Billy]

Bronco,

Type %appdata% in Start/Run.

Which folder is opened?

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com


"Bronco Billy" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message

Can any body help?

I have recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox and for some reason all of
the supporting programme files have appeared on my desktop as icons.

I have right clicked and deleted them but they always come back when
I
launch Firefox.

I have made sure that when I download Firefox that it is being saved
in
program files.

Any help appreciated..............BB

Thanks for the replys guys,

Fitz.......I made sure I was saving in C/Program files.

Ramesh.......%appdata% when entered in the run box comes up with the
Application Data window.

Tried again this morning and even though I unticked the box that gives
the choice of putting icons on your desktop (From Firefox advanced
install) I still have the same problem......I will try and post a
picture for you......


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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Bronco,

Open Regedit.exe and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

In the right-pane, the AppData value should be of REG_EXPAND_SZ type,
containing the following data:

%USERPROFILE%\Application Data

If it's set incorrectly, fix the entry and then reboot once.

Additional options:

Create a new user account and test the behavior.

How To Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=279783

Home - MozillaZine Forums:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Bronco Billy]

Ramesh........

Tried putting in that setting but it didn`t work mate. still get all
those Icons on my desktop. Looks like its not going to be easy.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Bronco,

Then it's probably a setting in Mozilla Firefox.

Additional options:

Create a new user account and test the behavior.

How To Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=279783

Home - MozillaZine Forums:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Bronco Billy]

Thanks Ramesh.......

I have opened a question in the support forum for Firefox, Mozzilazine,
but i have not had much luck as yet. It just really frustrates me when I
can`t get things to work how they should.

Cheers............BB