icons on desktop

[seanmark2]

I had my XP in for repairs and when it came back everything was gone. I did have backups of the items I needed but I wonder if anyone can tell me how to put icons such as Techimo, My Documents ,etc on the desktop page.

[John Prophet]

In general just right click the item and do "send to" and choose "desktop" (create shortcut)

[Jack Hannibal]

You could also paste shortcuts to the needed items in the C:\Documents and Settings\<userid>\desktop folder. Or if for all users, paste into C:\Documents and Settings\all users\desktop folder.

[Dax_Brandy]

are you sure they're gone or just hidden?

[ArcticFox]

Dun-dun-dun!!

Yeah you could fuss with the registry (don't ask I'm running 2000 at the moment) but - if you name a file a certain name it will create a link to the My Documents folder or whatever. I can't think of a link which provides those names though.

[John Prophet]

well there is a setting to hide all icons..is that what you are talking about? or just icons for your favorite stuff?

Im on a 98 machine right now so I cant remember exactly how to find it..but the hide icons thing is somewhere under "customize desktop"

[butch81385]

yea, i use the hide icons all the time to clean my desktop up for visitors (people yell when they see 50 or so icons.... then i just toss them in a folder on my desktop called "random")

in xp, right click desktop, click arrange icons, and make sure "show icons" is checked