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• The desktop icon is still active / highlighted

  original title: the desktop icon are active... problem.

  When you copy an email from outlook on my desktop, I answered Yes to the question regarding making the active icon.  After doing this my desktop refreshes very slowly. In addition, all the icons on my desktop are highlighted.  How can I fix?

  a system restore or create a new administrator account should help

• How can I remove the shadows on the desktop icons

  my icons have a blue background, how can I remove this blue highlight

  I did the two steps and always with shadows. This Monday last after a Windows Update.
  Before updating my theme Windows was classic. After restarting of theme look to XP with the shadows :( Anything else I can do?

  OS: Win XP Home Edition

  Thanks in advance.

  http://marksxp.MVPs.org/WindowsXP/boarders.php

  This border on the desktop icons can be created when the elements of the Office was locked, to unlock the desktop items web right click on an empty area of your desktop. Now, select arrange icons by and uncheck "Web Lock Desktop items" if she has a little check mark next to it. If you did not have a tick here and then right click on your my computer icon and view its properties, now click on the Advanced tab click the button settings running. Now on the Visual Effects tab scroll effects to 'use the shadows of the desktop icon labels' and put a tick in the box next to it, and then click ok. This should remove the border from the shadow of your desktop icons.

  Just like that.

• on registration of the desktop icons are not displayed

  Registration using Windows XP, the desktop icons do not appear.

  You see only your background image and the wallpaper?

  Miss all your desktop icons and you don't see the taskbar at the bottom of the screen or are simply missing icons and you can see the taskbar at the bottom?

  Check the simple things first.  Right-click on an open space on your desktop, choose Arrange icons by and make sure the option show desktop icons has a check mark next to it.  This will work if you don't miss you that the desktop icons, but still see the Start button and the taskbar.  If you are missing as the Start button and the taskbar, which isn't your problem.

  If only you can see your wallpaper background picture and don't see the desktop icons and no start button or taskbar, this means that the explorer.exe program does not run (and it must be running) or the explorer.exe program are usually afflicted.  A good way to think about at the moment, it is that the process explorer.exe "is" your desktop.

  If this is the case of malware in general prepares.

  What is your system brand and model?

  What is your version of XP and the Service Pack?

  You have a true bootable XP installation CD (it is not the same as any recovery CD provided with your system)?

  Describe your current antivirus and software anti malware situation: McAfee, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc..

  Sometimes your anti malware program to quarantine (and indeed remove) your file explorer.exe (or other critical files on the XP system) if it finds that the file is infected.  The file may really be infected, but you can know for sure and then reconsider your anti malware options.

  First, you need to get your work desk in order to have room for manoeuvre, then you can solve your problem of potential malware.

  Of your background image, press Ctrl-Alt-Del and open Task Manager.

  Look at the processes tab and if the process explorer.exe is not running, start it as follows:

  In Task Manager, click file, new task, and in the Open box, enter:

  %windir%\explorer.exe

  Click OK and see if get you your office.  If you get an error, we need to know what it says.

  If explorer.exe is already running in the processes tab, it is likely that the object of the affection and will need to be replaced (which is not difficult).

  If you notice that the explorer.exe process is already running in the Task Manager, highlight the explorer.exe process, and then click end process to stop and start a new explorer.exe process as described above.

  If things look right now, your system is still not fixed, but it should be enough usable so now you can fix it.

  I would start with these scans:

  Perform scans for malware first, then these scans by operating clean, difficulty of problems:

  Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware detection programs:

  Malwarebytes (MMFA): http://malwarebytes.org/
  SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

  They can be uninstalled later if you wish.

  Please report back with information about your system and your results if you need additional assistance.

• the desktop icons disappear when I connect through a VPN

  On my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, SP1 system, automatic reorganization and snap to grid are unchecked.  And I don't have problems with icons on a restart.  I have problems when I access my system in my home using a VPN and the DRC.

  Sometimes when I connect, I find that most of my desktop shortcut icons have disappeared and the few remaining ones are reorganized.  It happens every time and I did not understand a common denominator as to when it occurs.

  I copied all my desktop shortcuts to a folder on a different drive if I can put them all after they disappear, but when I copy and paste them on the desktop, they do not return to the same places they were in front.  Instead, they are lined up on the grid starting at the top left and go down and creating more columns until all the icons were pasted.

  So, I have to manually, drag and drop them where I want them to be.

  Like others who interrogated him about the desktop icons, when I right click on the desktop I do not receive a "Properties" link as shown.  I'm getting , sort by view, refresh, paste & paste the shortcut, cancel deletion, New, screen resolution, Gadgets and Personalize.

  I also tried another solution that said"right-click an empty space on your desktop and Select the desktop icons.  When I right click, I get the menu described in the previous paragraph.  Then when I start to clicking on icons to highlight, the menu disappears.  If I pointed out all the icons first and then with the right button on the desktop, the menu and the highlighting disappears.

  How can lock the desktop icons?  I agree with the donor who asked a parameter for "don't mess with my desktop computer EVER.

  Hi Jane,

  Given that the problem seems to occur when you access your system from home using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and RDC (Remote Desktop connection). I would like you to post your question in the TechNet forums for help.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?Forum=w7itpronetworking

  Thank you

  Stephanie Podder.

• eject the camera when no disk on the desktop icon

  How to eject my camera after that import photos into iPhoto, when there is no disc on the desktop icon and not eject from the menu file finder?

  Ed,

  Read the excellent advice provided by leonie in how "eject you" a camera or such a device of the photos app after import?

  

• Some of the desktop icons have expanded themselves how to reverse this trend?

  Some of the desktop icons have expanded themselves how to reverse this trend?

  The first thing to try is to right click on your desktop > view > click medium icons and see what happens. You can also try small

• Acer laptop: the desktop icons used open in Windows 10

  The desktop icons will not open in Windows 10.  I get the menu drop-down-directed by the word 'View', but the word 'Open' is nowhere in it!   Please, please, help. Thank you.

  Hello @JoeBuzu,

  Welcome to the HP Forums!

  I read your message of not being able to open applications from the desktop and tried to tender hand for you.

  As it is a problem with your Acer laptop, not an HP product, you want tender hand to Acer support for this issue.

  Thank you for being a part of the community of HP.

• Pavilion p7: the desktop icons disappeared

  When I started my pc this morning I founf that all my desktop icons disappeared

  Hmm, that's strange. I wonder if you might have accidentally switched to Tablet mode, where the desktop icons would not display. See switch between Mode desktop and Tablet (Windows 10).

  If this does not work, try to install the Windows updates and reboot your computer. I would also like to run a virus scan. Good luck!

• How can I reduce the size of the desktop icon?

  Accidentally increased the size of the desktop icons and were able to reverse the changes. Any suggestions?

  Hello:

  You should be able to right click on your desktop.  Select display and you will have a choice to select small, medium or large icons.

  Paul

• That means the small arrow on the desktop icons?

  That means the small arrow on the desktop icons?

  It designates the actual icon ' points to ' (or is a shortcut to) the actual file. You can create a shortcut to a file or a folder by right click, then click on "create shortcut". If you delete the shortcut, the original file is not removed.

  For more information, see:

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/File_shortcut

• How to remove the desktop icons arrows?

  How can I remove the arrows under the desktop icons

  Delete or modify the arrow used on shortcuts in Windows XP
  http://WindowsXP.MVPs.org/arrow.htm

  How to remove or change the layering of shortcut in Windows 7 and Vista
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/articles/153/1/how-to-remove-or-modify-the-shortcut-overlay-in-Windows-7-and-Vista.html

• Restore the desktop icon images?

  I had to restore a dos version of Win7 64 and the desktop icons now appear as an image by default, how can I restore their normal icon image?  In fact the larger icons for the desktop correctly but small I was a little image "by default".

  Deeppow2,

  This problem can be solved by doing the steps below;

  http://www.ehow.com/how_6374446_restore-desktop-icons-default-settings.html

  http://www.ehow.com/how_6924472_restore-default-desktop-icons.html

  Let me know if the problem is resolved by following the steps from the link above ;-)

• Failure of the desktop icons

  We have Windows XP.  The desktop icons under their usual appearance at the appearance of the white pages and no longer connect to their respective programs, when you click on it.  How solve us this problem?

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  We have Windows XP.  The desktop icons under their usual appearance at the appearance of the white pages and no longer connect to their respective programs, when you click on it.  How solve us this problem?

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  The Windows XP PowerToy for free... TweakUI has an option
  for the reconstitution of the icons... it might be worth a try.

  (FWIW... it's always a good idea to create a system)
  Restore point before installing software or updates)

  Click on the following link... Featured downloads / TweakUI.

  Windows XP downloads
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/downloads/Windows-XP

  For instructions, see the following article:

  Repair or rebuild icons in Windows XP using Tweak UI
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/repair-icons-Windows-XP-using-Tweak-UI/

• The desktop icons and taskbar are at least three minutes to load when I start the computer.

  Original title: problem with the desktop icons

  All of a sudden when I start my computer, the icons on the desktop and icons at the bottom of the clock of the take at least three minutes to load, and before that time, they used to load in a few seconds.  Also, I have no problem with the computer start.  Any help to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.

  According to the specifications of your system, hard drives on your system are disks IDE (not the SATA drives).

  Sometimes the Interface IDE mode can change from DMA mode to PIO mode and when that happens, things sudden. run very slowly, but it is easy to check and adjust if you need to.

  Here's how:

  If you are using IDE drives, use Device Manager to check the channel Transfer Mode IDE is set to something like DMA if available (depends on your hardware) and the slow PIO mode.
    
  Don't forget: PIO is the slowest, DMA is faster.

  It is easy to check and usually easy to fix and the mode would not have changed in itself, so if she changed to PIO, change it to DMA, and then understand why it changed and fix it.

  To launch the Device Manager console, click Start, run and enter in the box:

  %SystemRoot%\System32\devmgmt.msc

  Click OK.

  Expand the section controller IDE / ATA to see your IDE channels. Each right click and choose Properties for each channel that has a tab advanced settings, determine the Transfer Mode. There are usually 4 channels to check in a desktop computer, maybe less for laptops.

  Faster selection will always be a kind of selection DMA (usually: DMA DMA5, UDMA, etc.).  If it is PIO, change it to DMA.
    
  If you are unsure of what you see after return of help and advice.
    
  If you make settings, restart and check the settings again to make sure that any change stick.
    
  What may have caused the change?
    
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/817472