Summary: I have seen a few posts around here about people getting a strange icon appearing on their desktop with a tilde sign ( ~ ) Mystery solved! It is the r...
Summary: carried out a system restore and now i have no icons on desktop and a message appears which states that BROWSEUI.dll was not found and reinstalling t...
Summary: I have an icon on my desktop for a "file" that cannot be removed. If I try to delete the icon/file it says "cannot read from source file or disk". I h...
Summary: "My Safe" icon on desktop won't open. Normally, I would click on the icon and I would be asked to enter the password or finger-print swipe. But now, I...
Summary: that IS strange. No you dont have two desktops. You may have different user profiles with a different desktop for that perticular user. Try adding and...
Summary: I was wondering is there a way to keep the my computer icon on the desktop for all users and accounts on the pc and from there on. Which would mean th...
Summary: I put some icons on my desktop and they have the little white box with the arrow in the lower left corner showing that they are shortcuts. is there ...
Summary: In my documents /there is a folder called my pictures that is full of pictures,while trying to change the icon on my desktop to a different picture ,w...
Summary: Hi.... Some application put a 0-bytes "file" and generic icon on my desktop. It named it an 8-character hex value followed by a ".". I can not renam...
Summary: Ivo, Is the icon actually "}" or is it the "~" (tilde)icon? If it's the "~" (tilde) icon the link below explains it. What is the Tilde (~) file that a...
Summary: has anyone seen a problem with xp when you have double icons on the desktop? If you make a shortcut it makes another identical, if you delete one, it ...
Summary: Good morning all, I am trying to place an icon on every users desktop. My original plan was to create a .bat file with a simple script that copied an...
Summary: Had to download a Dell Flash Bios from their support online (support.dell.com). Their instructions were to save this file to the Windows Desktop. Afte...
Summary: I have lost my IE Icon on my desktop. I have tried every thing that I know of to get it restored, no success.Can any one explain what I have to do in ...
Summary: Robin, Just to add to Chuck's response the link below also explains what that desktop icon (file) is. What is the Tilde (~) file that appears on Deskt...
Summary: I use the lapetop PC at work with an LCD monitor and the primary laptop screen together. I use at home only the laptop screen. The Icons are in order ...
Summary: Hi, suddenly all my icons are inactive. I try to open something but nothing works. when i point my mouse on one of them it gives the general informati...
Summary: Go to Control Panel, then to "Display" Click on the "Desktop" tab, then click on "Customize Desktop" Put a check by "My Computer" in the Desktop Icon...
Summary: Two things: 1) The computer is a new notebbook. I do not have that desktop icon on the taskbar that is common on most computers. How do I get it the...
Summary: Something very strange happened to my winxp! Since I turned my pc on this morning after having it shut down last friday for the weekend, the colors o...
Summary: For some reason, my desktop refreshed and now my desktop icons are messed up. The shadow behind each icon is gone and alpha icons now have jagged edg...
Summary: I just had something strange happen. I was playing a game and I exited the game and went back to my desktop, but my Outloom Express icon on my deskto...
Summary: Hi, On my desktop the internet icon has changed to white page, with a bit folded on the right side, and contains blue red boxes as it doesn't recogniz...
Summary: Just installed an updated printer driver; I uninstalled the present one, downloaded the updated one to zip file. Opened the zip to install the new one...