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Old October 3rd, 2008, 04:02 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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How to get desktop icons back on desktop (from toolbar)?

I've been working on getting a friend's computer cleaned up and updated from the nasty Antivirus XP 2008 infection. One of the things it does is move all your desktop icons into a toolbar in the taskbar. How can I restore this back to normal? On XP with SP3.
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Old October 3rd, 2008, 04:13 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Have you tried dragging them from the taskbar back onto the desktop?
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Yeah, it looks like if I do that they'll all be "Shortcut to..." with the little arrows. I don't really want to deal with that.
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You can right click on the icon, click on Rename and remove the "Short cut to".
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I know.
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Old October 3rd, 2008, 04:30 PM     #6 (permalink)
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So you're all done then??

What happens when you right click on the desktop->arrange icons and loook to see if the show desktop icons is selected?
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What happens when you right click on the desktop->arrange icons and look to see if the show desktop icons is selected?

THANK YOU! I didn't know about that little setting. Cheers!
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Old October 3rd, 2008, 06:29 PM     #8 (permalink)
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Yeah - the tool bar is the generic "Desktop" toolbar. You can kill it.
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It's dead, Jim.
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