Cannot move icons on the desktop or copy & paste

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• Cannot move items on the desktop to the trash.

  Cannot move items on the desktop to the trash. Get code error - 43.

  Solved my problem. Rebooted and just stop. Strange.

• Can not move icons on the desktop

  Can not move icons on the desktop

  Right click on the desktop, click view and uncheck Auto Arrange icons.

• Cannot add icon on the desktop

  I just installed a program call CCCleaning using Download.com. After you install the software to clarify on any virus that I might have, I rebooted my computer. Once started all my icon on my desk right away. When I try to right click on my mouse, nothing appears. So what I did I pres Ctrl + Alt + Delete, the the window Task Manager appears. When I select the new task, I can pick a certain program it will open. BUT when I try to drag an icon on the desktop, it won't let me. Looks like they disable me to run any shortcut on the desktop. I can open all programs unless I open the Task Manager window and select new task.

  So, I would like to know what I did wrong? Can someone solve this for me?

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Follow these methods mentioned below and check if that helps.

  Method 1: Perform a system restore and see if that helps.

  Perform a system restore will take your computer to a previous state, when he did not face such a problem, this can be done by selecting the correct restore point.

  How to restore Windows XP to a previous state
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/306084

  Method 2: run a scan for viruses with Microsoft Safety scanner and check.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: before you perform security analysis, make a backup of important data.

  Thank you

• Cannot move icons with the new ios 10.01 update

  I just updated my iphone 6 Plus and cannot move my icons of the screen in the screen or a screen.  WITHOUT jiggle with my finger on the icon.  Any suggestions?  Thank you

  Try a forced reboot: hold down the House and on the buttons until the unit turns off. Ignore the cursor off if it appears. Once completed, if it does not start on it own, turn off power with the key On. In some cases, it also contributes to double click the Home button and close all applications before restarting.

• Icons cannot be moved on the desktop

  I just changed my desktop image.  I noticed the trash moved to the side left (he was on the right side at the start) in line with my other icons.  When I try to drag the icon to the trash to another area on the desktop, it jumps to the left side.  What I've done wrong?

  It seems that "Auto arrange" has set in motion.

  Right-click on an empty space on your desktop, then:

  Organize the icons in-> uncheck "auto arrange".

  "Icons disappear or that you cannot move icons on the desktop".

  <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/137069 >

  HTH,

  JW

• All icons on the desktop have turned to photo viewer and cannot open these programs

  I recently had my computer up to date. Everything was fine until I put my memory stick in the laptop and tried to download my back upwards. Now, when I turn the laptop on the icons does not load and are all stuck in photo viewer and I cannot open programs at all. Can anyone help please, thank you

  Original title: icons on the desktop

  I'm not 100% sure but I think that you are having a bad "file extension association. This is where the default program to open a file is incorrect. In the case of your office, these are all shortcuts (for example. LNK files) and the. LNK Association was by mistake coupled with Photo Viewer.

  I've seen this happen when opening a program via a shortcut (for example. LNK file), you are asked what type of program to open it with. After you have selected the photo viewer (or another program) via the Select a program from a list of programs installedand check always use the selected program to open this type of file (circled in red below), the document or program referenced by the shortcut of origin opens in the Photo Viewer as it should.

  The problem is that now all shortcuts (for example. LNK files) on the desktop or in the Explorer will want to be opened by the photo viewer and often use the icon Photo Viewer to display the shortcut no matter what shortcut was originally intentioned to open. This is known as a file association and the default icon. The same condition can occur if you have performed these actions 'Open with' on one. JPG or even a. EXE, but the. LNK explanation is much more likely for the items on the desktop.

  The good news is that a small free utility was written to cancel the. LNK file association was created. There is also a registry hack to achieve, but I recommend the utility unASSOC for its ease of use.

  You can get a copy of my OneDrive here. I used to send people elsewhere to download a copy, but this page is more in addition to confusion with misleading ads to download this and this computer of powders of snake oil "fixed".

  

  Just download, then use the utility to unassociate the. LNK files for the user or globally delete the file type and let windows rebuild a new default.

• Cannot move anything in the browser - icons, tabs, etc.

  I've just upgraded to Firefox 12.0 and have found that I can't do anything to drag anywhere. At first, I thought it was a problem with the Menu Editor extension - I was trying to reposition a component menu, just after doing the upgrade to v11.0. In the Options window the Menu editor that can be done simply by dragging, but it did not work.

  I spent the time wrong with it until I realized that the other drag-type features do not work. In order to found:

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  3. Cannot reorganize bookmarks and favicons on personal bar. Open the context menu of bookmarks toolbar and its commands work.
  4. Cannot move tabs to the bar Favorites or folder.
  5. [Window to customize open] cannot drag items to or from the window customize and cannot rearrange or move the Navigation bar or the bar Add on icons.

  There may be questions focused more on the trail, but they are the only ones I can think of and have found. I don't know if I'd known, on the top of my head, extension interfaces accommodate slide they would fail to work. Basically, nothing moves when I click on it with the cursor and try to drag. I don't get any feedback as circle with slash graphic.

  This may be a conflict extension but before I start to switch to many ad - ons that someone might know if this is a new feature setting, I don't know, that was the case before, when I updated.

  I've also seen a recent thread open when the person has a similar problem (but on a Mac - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926256?s=can%27t+drag+and+drop & r = 11 & e = & did = s). I wonder if there are perhaps other elements of that this person also cannot move, but not has not yet discovered, and if this problem and mine is perhaps related.

  After following the instructions with the following...

  • https://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/KB/safe%20Mode
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.RDF

  ... I determined that my theme or a corrupt localstore.rdf were the cause of my problems.

  Then begins the troubleshooting extensions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting-extensions-themes?redirectlocale=en-US & redirectslug = Troubleshooting + extensions + and + themes).

  Hardware acceleration has been eliminated as a cause as it has never been activated.

  It turns out that, like the Mac user in the thread I linked above, Torbutton has been the cause of the problem. I thought that it unlikely just because it seemed so not related to how the problem was evident.

  Torbutton was not invalid he's turned off in the browser, so I considered it "not active".

  This message was posted on the first page of the Torbutton website last spring: "now that the Tor Browser Bundle includes a patched Firefox version, and because we have not enough resources to deal with the Firefox version developer accelerated schedule, the Torbutton toggle model is not recommended. "Users should use Tor Browser Bundle, do not install Torbutton themselves."

  Their "Active Torbutton Tickets" page includes two of the problems I had like individual bugs, "Torbutton add-on interferes with the buttons on toolbar add-ons (including his own)" and «torbutton disables the ability to drag and save quick links»

  They go to a variety of reasons, they no longer support the key in this blog (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/toggle-or-not-toggle-end-torbutton). Mainly for security reasons, partly because they cannot deal with the hourly output FF and last because users are reporting more broken features and incompatibilities with each new version of FF.

• How do you keep icons on the desktop to move?

  Original title: the desktop icons

  How do you keep icons on the desktop to move?

  Hello

  Right-click on an empty area of the desktop

  Select display

  Select the icons snap to grid

  It should align them to the left

• It cannot open any programs they all have the same icon on the desktop and start programs... why?

  All of the icons on the desktop and on the start menu have the same icon and will not open... I have new sony computer with windows 7... I tried to move music to a file to burn a cd, he asked what program I should use to open them have all records have the same program and open the habit... I don't run a virus, malware, none of the infected files.

  Hello

  You did changes to the computer before the show?

  Method 1
  I suggest you try the steps from the following link:

  When you run an .exe on a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7 computer file, the file may start another program
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950505

  Note: this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article: back up the registry in Windows 7

  Method 2
  The issue could be due to the virus on the computer. I suggest you run virus scanner online by using the Microsoft safety scanner.

  Microsoft safety scanner
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: when you do an antivirus online, you will lose data that are affected by the virus. Microsoft is not responsible for the loss of this data.

• Cannot delete the background color of the icons on the desktop in XP.

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  I tried the following steps with no luck.

  1 Control Panel / System / Advanced / Performance tab / button settings and tick: shadows fall to use the desktop icon labels

  2. display properties-> Desktop-> Desktop Customize-> Web-> "Lock desktop items" and "my current Home Page" is not checked.

  Any suggestion would be appreciated...

  Thanks in advance.

  Naveen

  These links should help you:

  http://www.TomsHardware.com/Forum/25340-45-unable-remove-shadow-desktop-icons-Windows

  http://www.geekyard.com/OS/Windows/how-to-remove-desktop-icon-background-color/

• Moves the position of the icons on the desktop

  Position of the icons on the desktop to reorganize (on the right side of the screen) of the position, I put them.  The switch "rearrange icons by" returns to a check on the "snap to grid" repeatedly after booting.  I changed the icon positions, changed line up options, shellconcache altered, but no joy.  The icons of jump using any program and start.  Only when I use a program separate (Enterra Icon Keeper) can I get the icons to return to the position that I their position.  Using XP on a Dell computer.

  Hello roddy1, welcome.

  Try the following:

  1. click on START
  2. click on 'run '.
  3. Type "regedit" (without the quotes) and press enter
  4. expand "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE."
  5 expand "Software".
  6 expand "Microsoft."
  7 expand "Windows".
  8. expand 'CurrentVersion '.
  9 left-click (once) 'Explorer' to select
  10. on the right side, right-click somewhere in the open space and select new > DWORD (32-bit) Value
  11 type "Max Cached Icons" (without the quotes) and press enter
  12. double click on the DWORD value is created and then enter 2048. Then click on 'Ok '.

  13. click on START
  14. click on 'run '.
  15 type 'cmd' and press enter
  16 type C:\Windows\ShellIconCache and press enter
  17. find the icon Cache file and delete it

  18. restart your computer

  If the above does not resolve the problem, I create a new user account on the computer and migrate your data on. You may have a corrupted user account.

  Let us know if it works,

  Thank you!

  Ryan Thieman
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Cannot open the icons on the desktop

  Once I open an icon on the desktop and I can't close it open it again.

  Once I open an icon on the desktop and I can't close it open it again.

  Most likely your icon cache is corrupt. Here is a tutorial on how to rebuild the icon cache:

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

  t-4-2

• CANNOT FIND MS SECURITY ESSENTIALS ON MY COMPUTER TO CREATE THE ICON ON THE DESKTOP (I KNOW ITS THERE)

  need to create the icon on the desktop for ms security essentials and cant even find in my programs (I know its there, says Action Center turned on)

  You see in the Notification area? Right-click on an empty spot. Properties | Customize Notification icons and adjust the setting for the MSE icon.

  If you must have the it on the desktop: start | All programs. Right-click on MSE and create a shortcut on the desktop.

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• Windows 7 - How can I get rid of an "All Control Panel items" icon on the desktop?

  Only, I've migrated to Vista Ultimate x 64 to Windows 7 Professional x 64.  I used Laplink to move all my users, programs, and settings.  Everything is great, except now there is an icon on the desktop for all my users that I can't get rid of - it connects to the control panel and is called "All Control Panel items" - it cannot be deleted or moved to the Recycle Bin. Make a right click on it brings up a menu with 'open' and 'create a shortcut' by dragging it to the trash does not delete it.

  If I am right cick on the desktop and add Control Panel to the items displayed on the desktop, a second control Panel icon appears with the same picture, but the text is just 'control panel '.

  I don't know there is a registry key that I have to remove or adjust but after a lot of research can't find anything.

  Open the Publisher of the registry (Regedit.exe) and navigate to:

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

  Backup the key by exporting to a REG file.

  Expand the branch above and delete the following subkey:

  {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
  (The above is the GUID for "All Control Panel items" Namespace)

  Similarly, to remove the entry here (if found)

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

  Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Desktop Experience]