From: bashley101+et@gmail.com   
      
   Pastor Dave wrote:   
      
   >  spake thusly:   
   >> Pastor Dave wrote:   
   >>>  spake thusly:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>> I used to organize my 50 or so desktop icons in reasonable   
   >>>>>>>> ways -- to me, anyway.  Unfortunately, every once in a while   
   >>>>>>>> something would happen (mostly trying to start XP without   
   >>>>>>>> having my KVM switch switched to the windows machine so it   
   >>>>>>>> could make the proper monitor settings) to reorganize them in   
   >>>>>>>> ways I didn't like.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> I finally gave up and set the sort order to 'alphabetical',   
   >>>>>>>> which is mindlessly reproducible.  Fine, except it does it   
   >>>>>>>> twice.  One group of icons a-z and then a second group of   
   >>>>>>>> different icons a-z.  I've tried several reorganizations, but   
   >>>>>>>> they always end up that way.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> I'm tired of playing around.  What's happening?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I would guess that one group is on *your* desktop   
   >>>>>>> (...\username\Desktop) and the other is on the "all users"   
   >>>>>>> desktop (...\All Users\Desktop) -- but that's just a guess.   
      
   BINGO!  There are also a couple of other accounts containing only the icon for   
   some AOL crap.  Killed those.   
      
   >>>>>> I doubt it.  I'm the only user and I've never switched into a   
   >>>>>> different account.  All the icons, except for the original ones,   
   >>>>>> are for programs I've installed or wanted to use without following   
   >>>>>> the tree structure.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It really doesn't matter whether or not you're the only user. When a   
   >>>>>  program installs itself, it will place the icon in one of the two   
   >>>>> following folders:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop or C:\Documents and   
   >>>>> Settings\\Desktop   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> All XP computers have at least two "Desktop" folders. The one an   
   >>>>> installation program has chosen to use often cannot be determined   
   >>>>> until after the installation has completed.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Does that sound as nuts to anybody else as it does to me?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So a possible solution might be to dump them from  to >>> users>?   
   >>>   
   >>> Then every user will have the exact same desktop.   
   >>   
   >> That's OK, there's only me.   
   >   
   > Yes, but unless you are seeing copies of every icon on the "All Users"   
   > Desktop. then that's not your problem.   
   >   
   > You can check by looking at:   
   >   
   > C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop   
   >   
   > ...and comparing it with:   
   >   
   > C:\Documents and Settings\Bev\Desktop   
   >   
   > ...or whatever user name you chose on the PC. :)   
   >   
   > But if this "doubling of the icons" is due to that, then you will see all of   
   > the icons in both places.   
   >   
   > Furthermore, are you sure that they are not copies?   
      
   Yes.  Icons for totally separate applications.  It's like somebody said "All   
   you guys, form two lines" and they did :-(   
      
   > What I mean is, that I have seen it where people have right clicked on   
   > something and thought they were renaming something, or whatever function   
   > they were trying to do and actually, without realizing it, had a few things   
   > highlighted at the same time and accidentally clicked on "Copy", or   
   > "Shortcut" and so, ended up with two of everything.   
   >   
   > Assuming that you do not actually have two copies on two different desktops,   
   > then have you tried deleting one of the doubles and then reordering them by   
   > name again, to see if the double that you just deleted show up again?   
   >   
   > If it doesn't, then just manually delete the doubles.   
   >   
   > But make sure that it's the double you're deleting!!!   
   >   
   > It will probably say "Copy of...", or something. :)   
      
   No copies, all unique.  Honest!   
      
   OK, what I'm going to do now is get rid of all the crap icons for installing   
   hardware that I returned etc. and then move all of the survivors to either my   
   account or the all users account.   There are more icons on my desktop than the   
   all-users desktop, but that may be because I've deleted some previously.  The   
   'all users' group shows up first.  Is there any reason to choose one over the   
   other?   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
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