Re: Desktop help please

"Splodge" <sport.last@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I clicked on a charity website page this morning to get a shortcut
on my desktop.

I'm not sure what you mean by that - how does "Clicking" on a Web Page
get a Shortcut on your Desktop?

Can you Post the URL of the Web Site/Page?

It *is* possible for Web Pages to have Scripts on them, which can
do various things, but normally your Web Browser should Pop Up
a Warning if Web Sites do things like that.

What I got instead is a small white square which I now can't get
rid of. Using the left mouse button doesn't do anything, and the right
mouse button shows Arrange Icons By, Refresh, New, and Properties.

Like Mothy says, that Context Menu (with those Options on it) that
you are getting when you RightClick is the normal *Desktop* Context
Menu - it's not the Context Menu that you should get when you Right
Click something that's *on* the Desktop

... When I click on Properties I go into Display Properties

Yep - that's normal.

... and it shows "My Current Theme (Modified)"

Which it will be, if you have ever changed anything in the Desktop
Properties, such as the Wallpaper or Background or Icon Size or
Spacing etc.

... but the delete button is grey out.

Yep.
You can't Delete the built-in WinXp Theme!!!

But anyway, it's not the Desktop *Theme* that you should be trying
to Delete!

... When I click on the down button, there is also "My Current Theme"
without the Modified, so I guess the Modified one need to be deleted
somehow.

Nope.

You are looking in the wrong place & getting distracted by all that
sort of stuff - The prob is nothing to do with the Desktop Theems

Any suggestions as to how I can obliterate it from my Desktop?

Ta if you can help

It all depends what it actually *is* that you have managed to get
onto your Desktop!

Try this...

Go to the Start Button & Open up the "Run..." Box & Enter the word
"desktop" into it & Click [OK]

Can you tell us what happens when you do that?

It *should* Open up a (windoze) Explorer Window, focussed on the
Desktop Folder in your User Profile - Click the [Folders] Button,
or use: Menu>View>Explorer Bar>Folders, if the "TreeView" isn't
showing on the left hand side & can you Post back with what shows
up as the path to it? - You can find that out, by following down the
TreeView, or by looking in the AddressBar at the top of the Window -
if the AddressBar isn't Enabled, then you can Enable it, by
RightClicking on the ToolBar & Clicking "AddressBar", or use:
Menu>View>Toolbars>AddressBar

See if you can see this thing in that Folder.

Another thing to try is to Refresh the Desktop - RightClick>Refresh

& also, try ReBuilding the Icon Cache - go to the normal Desktop
Properties (like you did, above) & Switch to the "Appearance" Tab
& then Click the [Effects...] Button & Tick (or UnTick, if it's
already Ticked), the [/] Use Large Icons Option, Click [OK],
then [Apply] & then go back into the [Effects...] Button & UnTick
(or Tick, if it was already UnTicked) the [ ] Use Large Icons Option,
top (put it back to how it was, before you just changed it), then
Click [OK] Again & then [OK] out of the Desktop Properties Box.

What that bit of "Faffing & Fiddling" does, is to ReBuild the Icon
Cache (which is a Hidden File, called IconCache.db in the "Application
Data" Folder, in the "Local Settings" Folder in your Profile Folder),
which stores the Icons, so they Display quicker.

The idea is that ReBuilding the Icon Cache will (or might!) make
the thing that you have on your Desktop disappear, or at least you
should then be able to Select it & Delete it, by RightClicking on
the actual thing (& not on the Desktop).

HTH

--
pmj


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