To add the My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places, or Internet Explorer icons onto your desktop: In the General tab, check the box(es) for the icons you wish to appear on your desktop and then click OK. Click OK again to close the Display Properties window. The chosen icons should appear on the desktop. Right-click on the name of the program and select Send To: > Desktop (create shortcut). The icon for the program that you have chosen will appear on your desktop.

No. Programs running in a sandbox only have access to a fake synthetic initially empty desktop folder.

A16) Download an run regset.arm.cab on the IVC Display to remove the Icons and wallpaper from the desk top. This installation will modify the registry to remove the icons and wallpaper from the desktop.

In EDH on the Menu, click on Settings, Customize Homepage then select the document by clicking in the little white square next to it, then press the SUBMIT button at the bottom of the document.

You can hide or prevent access to your desktop icons in the same way as you would protect any other file or folder. The only trick when protecting the desktop items is to determine the correct locations of these items on your hard disk. (Use the Go to Special Folder command to locate such folders.

Sure, but not from IceWM. Again, this is desktop environment work, but usually done by the respective file managers, since they already know about MIME types, file endings and such. IceWM users usually use idesk, dfm, rox, kfm or gmc, where idesk, dfm and rox are better suited for work on smaller (older) machines than the other two.

Right click on a file of the type you want to associate with the new program. Select [Open With] and select the new default program either from the list or by browsing. Check the box to always use the program to open this type of file.

A. Change your resolution by right clicking anywhere on the desktop and by then clicking on properties. A "Display Properties" box will appear. Click on the Settings tab. Now find the "screen resolution" slider. If your icons are too big, move the slider to the right (increasing the resolution). If your icons are too small, move the slider to the left (decreasing the resolution). After you've made your desired changes, click on Apply.

You will have three icons: the zip file opener, the actual program file and the PDFs. The zip remains static once you open the file. The program file will launch the program. You will need Adobe Reader to view the PDF files. You can also view and print the PDF files without opening the intro program, if you choose.

The rpsminst.exe file is the Subscription Manager installer and you should keep it in some folder in case you need to reinstall Subscription Manager. The file that ends in .rps (this file is often a number like 010233.rps or the name of your subscription such as times.rps) is the subscription file and you should also keep this in a folder in case you need to reinstall. You can keep the shortcut file on your desktop or delete it.

To customize all your desktop icons Madonote is a very good software. You can change your system icons (e.g. 'My Computer', 'Network', 'Recycle Bin') on your desktop and give each(!) folder on your desktop an individual icon. Basically, this software provide functions Windows standard functions cannot change.

Please notice, that you can't change all icons on your desktop manually. For the system icons (e.g. 'My Computer','Recycle Bin') you'll have to use a tool like Madonote for this (see question above). It's a new interesting feature of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 called 'Favicon'. Associate an icon with your homepage now. If somebody adds your page to his favorites, IE will access the file favicon.ico in the root folder of your domain and a small icon appears in his favorites list.

To remove the weather desktop application, right-click on a blank part of the desktop. Note: Windows XP works a bit differently. Instead, click "Control panel," then "Display" and then the rest is the same as below starting at No. 2.

To remove or uninstall Desktop Weather from your computer, click on "Start" - "Programs" - "The Weather Channel" - "Desktop Weather". Then click on the Uninstall program. Follow the prompts to remove Desktop Weather. You may also remove the application by clicking on "Start", followed by "Settings", then "Control Panel." Then click on "Add/Remove Programs." From the list, select "The Weather Channel," and then click on "Add/Remove." Follow the prompts to uninstall the application.

To (for example) remove the talk tab and then add one that always goes to the main page you would save this code in (for example) extensions/AR-Tabs.

Please add the following code to your userChrome.css /* hide icons of extensions/themes and downloads (FF <= 1.5.x) or add-ons and downloads (FF >= 2.x) */ .extension-icon, .addonIcon, .downloadTypeIcon { display: none !important; }

Fluxbox has its own companion program for this kind of functionality, it is called fbdesk. fbdesk is currently not packaged with fluxbox. There are also alternatives: the RoxFiler project, idesk, xdesk.

Blackbox doesn't natively support icons. But you can use a different program with blackbox; i.e: kfm (KDE filemanager), gmc (GNOME filemanager), xfm (X filemanager), ROX, dfm ... By default with dfm, if you click on the background, you'll get the dfm menu and not the blackbox menu. You can change this by going to the "dfm x11" menu and then unselect "desktop context menu".)

If you experience problems viewing the full screen, select VIEW on the grey Macromedia Bar (top left). You will see the drop down box, select SHOW ALL. This should correct your viewing issues. For ideal viewing, your desktop should be set to 1024 X 768. To check this go to Control Panel > Display > Settings and move the arrow for Desktop Area to 1024 x 768.

This is not a very important problem, but can be irritating. If it annoys you, click on "Start", "Settings", "Folder Options". Click on "File Types", double-click on a file type (it doesn't matter which), then click "OK" twice. The icons should return to normal. Word keeps on changing my text after I type it, and I don't want it to (e.g. changing the first letter of a line to a capital).