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Help getting rid of graphic on desk
Name: Loren Sr Date: October 24, 2007 at 17:54:02 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: Pent 4 3.2 2 Gigs Product: ASUS P5P800
Comment:
I do not know how to get rid of an animated graphic file that I downloaded to my desktop. When I right click on it the dialog box is only for the desktop and not the file. It is cute but I am tired of it and want to get rid of it. Any ideas?
Name: SysLock Date: October 24, 2007 at 20:41:48 Pacific
Reply:
It might be a part of a screensaver or theme. Try looking in add/remove programs and see if a screensaver suite was installed. The other place to check would be your display properties and then the Theme tab.
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Response Number 2
Name: Loren Sr Date: October 25, 2007 at 01:51:15 Pacific
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Thanks but no luck SysLock. This is a strange one. Any other suggestions? Anyone?
srloren
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: October 25, 2007 at 05:35:32 Pacific
Reply:
What happens if you left-click on it and press the Delete key? Have you tried deleting it in Safe Mode?
Life's more painless for the brainless.
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Response Number 4
Name: Loren Sr Date: October 25, 2007 at 08:51:00 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Jennifer for your post. It is not like a shortcut that is it does not respond to a right click or left click. I can find no way to select it. I guess the lesson learned is to do a system restore each time before you install something.
Still stumped with this. I will not do a reinstall for this but have learned a good lesson....I hope.
srloren
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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: October 25, 2007 at 09:52:31 Pacific
Reply:
Can you post a screen shot?
Life's more painless for the brainless.
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Response Number 6
Name: Loren Sr Date: October 25, 2007 at 10:31:58 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks to you all especially Jennifer. I was able to Restore Point to the day before I downloaded this graphic and it is gone now. Thanks again
srloren
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Response Number 7
Name: Art Date: October 25, 2007 at 15:59:01 Pacific
Reply:
I think this was one of those Active Desktop items
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