Unwanted Icons

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Lisa,

Have you tried the simple solution of just using System Restore?

This sounds like the problem sometimes seen in XP where the common tasks
pane was seen on the desktop. This appeared when a user customized their
personal desktop folder (that'd be C:\Users\<user>\desktop in Vista). Can
you supply a screenshot?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Lisa,

Type "snipping tool" into the start/search line. Capture the area of the
screen and save the file as a .gif or .png, either should be small enough.
You can edit them in paint if necessary to reduce size.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Lisa,

I've not seen anything like that in any Vista system. I'd look at settings
for the toolbars you have installed and, again, system restore is an option
as well.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Lisa]

I have no idea what I did but I have a folder on my desktop whose contents
now appear to the left of the folder in a kind of veil all the way down the
left side of the monitor. My icons that were on the far left are now to the
right of those veiled folders located in the folder. I don't know how else
to explain it. I absolutely hate Vista. I have never wasted so much time in
my life. I see nothing better about it then XP but I spend hours trying find
out what I've done without intention. I wish I could have gotten XP and
foregone all the silly bells and whistles without paying an additional cost.
( Just venting)

 

[Lisa]

No, I haven't tried System Restore Rick. I never had this problem in XP. I
have no idea what I did and I can't believe a tap so light I was completely
unaware of it resulted in this kind of problem. All I do is troubleshoot.
I've been attempting to find a free picture resize for Vista for over an
hour. Is there one? I could easily supply a picture if I could resize it. It
won't send without resizing Thanks!

 

[Lisa]

Rick, I did a system restore and that corrected the problem. Thanks for your
help!

 

[Max]

It's very simple: you dragged the folder to the edge of your desktop, and it
created a toolbar out of itself, thereby displaying its contents. The same
would have happened in XP. All you needed to do was right click this new
'toolbar', and chose to close it.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Hi Lisa,

I've not seen anything like that in any Vista system. I'd look at settings
for the toolbars you have installed and, again, system restore is an
option as well.

Very surprising coming from you.

All you have to do is drag a folder to the edge of the screen to open a
toolbar for it. If you right click it, you get extra options, like making
it hideable. You can also drag it into the centre, but I am not sure if you
can still do that in Vista. You can make folder toolbars at least since
Win2000! I find them useful when working on a project involving lots of
files.

ss.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Ok, now I see how it happened. Honestly, I hadn't encountered that since in
Vista the toolbars cannot be dragged off the taskbar like they could in
Win2000/XP, which is the way I was accustomed to creating them. Thanks for
pointing it out to me.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I appreciate the input but I'm still confused on how this occurred.
Firstly, the folder had been there on my desktop for a week. When you say"
IT created a toolbar out of itself" what after a week prompted this? Also,
I attempted right clicking to close it and no such option was present.

If you drag a folder to the edge of the desktop and release the button, you
will create a toolbar, just like the one you had before. You have to right
click it at the top, where the title is, to get the menu options.

By the way, your time or timezone is wrong.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

If you drag a folder to the edge of the desktop and release the button,
you will create a toolbar, just like the one you had before. You have to
right click it at the top, where the title is, to get the menu options.

By the way, your time or timezone is wrong.

I forgot to mention that on your screenshot, you seem to have a toolbar for
Desktop on your Taskbar, which you must have made. It's the same sort of
thing.

ss.

 

[Lisa]

I appreciate the input but I'm still confused on how this occurred. Firstly,
the folder had been there on my desktop for a week. When you say" IT created
a toolbar out of itself" what after a week prompted this? Also, I attempted
right clicking to close it and no such option was present.

 

[Lisa]

Okay, I see now. Thanks so much for the explanation!