When you spend hours at your computer every day, the slightest unexpected change on your desktop can throw you off balance. The blue highlighting of desktop icons can happen accidentally in Windows XP ...

Ok, I'm on this weird wallpaper kick and would like to be able to show or hide my icons by using a shortcut key (instead of right clicking, arrange icons, show desktop icons)<BR><BR>Does anyone know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Q: I recently bought a new HP desktop computer and a HP laptop both running Windows 11. I use them both for business. I have four ...

Fences 2 is well worth the money: It makes the desktop useful again. I have no icons on my desktop. I have two wide-screen monitors totaling almost 4,000 horizontal pixels, and not a single icon— ...

Group and local policy settings enable users and administrators to control the way the computer functions and appears, including which items appear on the desktop. Application of group or local policy ...

If you, too, face a similar problem, first, restart your computer and see if you can delete it. If not, here are a few things you could try. Go to the desktop folder/s and try deleting from there. You ...

An anonymous reader doesn’t like the way Windows sometimes rearranges icons on his desktop. Can he protect himself against this annoyance? Yes, with a free program by Jamie O’Connell called Desktop ...

All of the folders/files in my user profile folder have those little gold padlocks on them. Some of my desktop icons have them. I have no idea how this happened. I didn't change any settings. Perhaps ...

Q: I recently bought a new HP desktop computer and a HP laptop both running Windows 11. I use them both for business. I have four businesses that I manage using my computers. I use mostly use Excel ...