floyd: I don't have a solution for you, but I've been having the same problem for the past 4 or 5 days. It seemed to follow an issue my DSL ISP...
surferdude2: I checked and the ATG option is checked. As far as I know it always has been, although it's not anything I look for ordinarily....
surferdude2 I set up a new User account operation to work around that prior problem and it didn't help. As you say, lots of trouble for...
surferdude2: No, I'm afraid I wasn't. So now I did it and that scrambled the Desktop icons. But several clicks on Restore Icons gradually put...
surferdude2: Bingo! That was the secret. I use Netscape 7.1 as my default browser, and when I used IE 6 the rest of the operation went just...
surferdude2: I must have gotten out of the stupid side of bed this morning. When you say are you referring to the link in your preceding post:...
surferdude2: So far so good. I deleted all the iconcache.db files, and I downloaded and installed Icon Saver, rearranged the Desktop icons and...
Update: The Desktop icon news is not good. The suggestion noahdfear offered that I thought was working didn't hold up. So I downloaded and...
JetstreamJim: Anecdotal judgments of computer brands -- mine or anyone else's -- probably aren't a reliable way to pick which one. (My Dell...
JetstreamJim: Dell offfers an array of laptops with the XP OS....
noahdfear: Your first suggestion didn't work, but your second one did! At least it's working so far. Haven't rebooted yet, but the icons are...
Running Windows XP (HE) with SP2, everything updated. I have 49 icons on my Desktop and a few days ago they decided to scramble themselves. I...
Tom F: It isn't exactly what you asked for, but anyone can download and install the PowerPoint Viewer. It's free, and I got mine by doing a...
PeteC Thanks for replying. Your success made me curious, so I did some experimenting. My primary browser is Netscape 7.1 and I know some Web...
Google has improved its Maps capabilities. Details here:...
School 1967 vs 2007 Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1967 - Vice...
mailman: You're more than welcome to share in the glory! :)
Joe Locke: I don't own one of them yet, but I researched the subject recently while planning to get my wife one to use beside her laptop in our...
Alt (holding it down) + 0186 is the correct ASCII code. What may be causing some confusion is that the numerals should be typed using the num-pad...
Derby Day, Juleps (From Charles McCabe’s column in the S.F. Chronicle, May 6, 1977) Tomorrow is Derby Day, and I think of horses and Kentucky,...
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