to many Icons on desk top help get rid of them

how can I get rid of about 200 files that went on my desk top ,my own fault pasted them in thought I was pasting to a floppy

 

rhondas--It has been a while since I used Win98, but I would think you could hold down the Control key, highlight all the files you want to send to the floppy, then right click on any one of the highlighted files, choose Send To|
choose Floppy|OK. If you have only a few other files on the Desktop, you could do the above in reverse. Highlight the ones you do not want to send to the floppy, then click Edit|Invert Selection. All the files you want to send to the floppy will now be highlighted and you can send them, per the above instructions, to the floppy.

 

rhondas,

Right click on My Computer and select Explore. On the left side of the screen, click on Desktop. You will see a list of items on your desktop. Just drag and drop the files to the new location of your choice.

Mike

 

Icons help good

I did it and thanks a lot

 

did it and they all came back

the first part above worked but when
I did it and when I did a scanreg they all came back, I can get the list up through my computer then click explore and then desk top but what can I do to get rid of them all off the desk top I tried high light selest all and delet, it dosnt work.

 

well icons problem and more

I have other issues on this lap top like kernel dll32 errors ,Im trying to fix it without a
cd rom drive also and its not on line either because I would need the cd to do the set up, so once I gett the bugs out of it Ill try to fix the cd rom or use an additional one out side plugged into it
evey time I want to get rid of the error to work on it I have to do a scan reg to do it

 

That's strange. Did you empty the trash can after deleting the files? Maybe this is related to the other problems that you are having. If you list the problems and error messages, maybe somebody can offer some help on those and then we can get back to the desktop.

Mike

 

If you left click and drag the files somewhere it merely copies them, if you right click on them and drag them somewhere if gives you the option to move them--which is what you want. If you have a short on your desk for the A drive[floppy] you can highlight all the files by holding down the ctrl key after highlighting the first one and highlight the rest but be careful not to drag the mouse while highlighting as it will make more copies on the desktop-when you have all highlighted right click on one while still holding down on the ctrl key and drag the cursor to the floppy shortcut and choose move here.

quickshot

 

quickshot--I could not agree with you more. See post #3 above.

 

oops, I missed your post. Sorry I did not mean to state again. Old age and poor eyesight you know,Ha--I have to blame it on something.

quickshot

 

I just tested on my 98 system, and you are correct Christer. Within the same partition, files are moved.

Mike

 

My mistake I guess as I have a C: and a D: and the A: drive and I was moving from one drive to another or to my external drive or USB flash.

quickshot

 

A better or at least more reliable way to move them is to right click on them, drag them to where you want, release the right mouse button. You'll be presented a menu that will allow you to choose whether you want copy or move the files. No need to remember which circumstance a left click copies and which one it moves.