When finished, click on OK. This video will benefit those viewers who use a Windows XP computer, and would like to learn how to restore the desktop icons because they accidentally deleted the icons or reformatted their computer.
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Personally, I find having half-a-dozen or so often-used program icons in this area useful. More icons than that becomes cluttered and hard to use. Similarly, you can drag icons around the QLT to reorder them. For instance, the Show Desktop icon sounds handy, but have you ever used it? Similarly, several program installations add icons to the QLT, often without asking permission.
If you don't open those programs that way and when did you ever open the QuickTime Player from an icon anyway? This is the area on the right-hand end of the Taskbar, with the clock and optionally other icons. Often quite a few icons end up there, making it difficult to use, and crowding out the space for running programs on the main area of the Taskbar. Some WordPerfect installations, for example, add icons for each of the many components of the suite.
One of the reasons to always pick the Custom installation option and pay attention to the choices. Unfortunately, unlike the Start Menu, Desktop, or Toolbar areas, Tray icons can be hard to get rid of. Many of these icons represent programs that are actually running, set to autoload at startup, and there are no standards for how to access them. Once again, take a look at the icons and ask yourself whether you can remember actually clicking on each to access its program.
If you don't actually regularly use one of these icons, you may not want it taking up precious desktop space. Useful icons include the little speaker icon for adjusting volume , a little monitor icon for setting resolution and colour depth , and an icon for your anti-virus program. Most others are rarely used in my experience.
Often mouse or video software adds an icon that duplicates settings available in the Control Panel-- but how often do you need to fiddle with these settings?
Try clicking it once, double-clicking it, or right-clicking. Hopefully, one of these techniques will either open a program or pop up a menu. Look for an option to disable the icon. Simply closing the program may not be good enough-- it may come back the next time you restart. Go to the StartUp tab.
This lists programs that run automatically at startup. Persistent Tray icons can be turned off from here, though it may take a bit of experimentation to find what to turn off. Windows XP has a nice option that will automatically clean up the System Tray area, hiding icons that haven't been used often. You can set options for it by right-clicking an unused area of the Taskbar, and selecting Properties from the popup menu. At the bottom of the dialogue box, there's an option to [ ] Hide inactive icons.
Clicking the Customize button lets you set options for individual icons-- opting to always show, never show, or hide when inactive. These operating system versions are designed for multiple users, and different users can have different desktops and start menus, with different pictures, but also with different icons present. Although they work in the same way as single-user versions of Win95, 98, and ME, they also become a bit more complex.
If you are logged in as a user with Administrative priviledges in one of these operating systems you can clean up everybody's desktop and start menu. Of course, maybe some of these users may like having a messy computer, but here's how it works: Right-click on the Start button.
Choose Explore or Explore All Users from the popup menu. An Explorer window will open up with a tree diagram of folders on the left and the contents of a folder on the right. Notice the folder named Documents and Settings. Within this, are subfolders for each user, such as one named Alan Zisman. Note also the subfolder named All Users.
Within each of these, are separate Desktop, Start Menu, Favorites, and other personalized folders. Items in the Alan Zisman desktop and start menu folders etc only show up when that user is logged in. Items in the All Users subfolders are always present, no matter who is logged in. It's probably a good idea not to mess with other users' desktop and start menus without involving them.
Unfortunately, it's not always clear where icons will end up when you install software under NT, , or XP. Some install programs let you choose subfolders-- and may list folder names twice if, for instance, there's a folder with the same name in both your Start Menu and the All User Start Menu.
Other install routines will install in one place or the other without asking you or telling you which they are using. Especially since even after you clean them, they just start getting cluttered again. But then, it's like your physical desktop Papers, envelopes, cables, piles of magazines, and the like have a tendancy to pile up wherever there's a flat surface. From time to time, I have to clean up.
Why should our computers be any different? Clean up the Desktop Too many of us have Desktops cluttered with many icons--some of them leftovers of the Windows 9x installation, but not really needed, and others icons created by program installations. Cleaning up the Start Menu Typical messy Start Menus have too many icons in two places--the top of the Start Menu above the Programs submenu , and within the Programs submenu itself.
Take it from the top! The QuickLaunch Toolbar Starting with the Internet Explorer 4 add-on to Windows 95, and carrying through subsequent versions of Windows, Microsoft added Toolbars , optional sets of little icons either on the left-hand side of the Taskbar beside the Start button , or on the right-hand side, beside the System Tray.
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