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This is an easy solution for people who have a desktop icon that they want to delete but can't. This solution is also great for people who don't want to download unnecessary programs to get rid of the icon! Solution 1. Right click the icon you want to...

hi all, sorted out my guest account logon prob. now when any guest logs on, no network icon appears in system tray/notification area? the guest can access the net and browse. would be very grateful for any ideas/solutions. the icon does not even appear in the customize icons display window...

Ok, so you know that W7 by default includes an explorer shortcut in the taskbar to quickly access your libraries. If you right click the icon, it shows the most recent opened folders on explorer.exe. A couple of days ago, I missclicked "unpin this program from taskbar". So went to C:\Windows...

I'm wanting to "pin" an Icon of my USB flash drive to my taskbar in Win7. I click on computer>Kingston(I: ) >create shortcut. When the shortcut appears on my desktop it's an icon of a removable drive (which is what I want), but when I try to "pin" it on my taskbar it changes to an icon of a...

I know how to change the font and size of the desktop icons, but I do not know how to change the color of the font. The desktop is Aero theme, Sky window color, and the tiled attached background (Clouds.jpg).

The wireless icon next to the clock is displaying the wrong icon. I am connected to my home network, yet the icon no longer changes from the bars with the orange circle to the white bars. Sometimes when I connect to other networks, the icon changes but never on my home network any more. It used...

Hi, I'm running Widows 7 Ultimate on a Dell PC (I've got the RAM to install). For a long time I did not have what follows. Recently it appeared, stayed awhile, and then has reappeared.....for good ? In my bottom tray, 3 icons to the right of the Start button, an icon has appeared that has...

Hi Folks, Cybermoron posted a thread on creating a nifty shutdown button on the Win 7 desktop to make shutdown\restart easier. I posted that I use a similar method to shutdown\restart my Ubuntu installs using a simple python script. He suggested I share that here in the Linux section so here...

Can someone please help me to solve this problem. My computer freezes regularly for approximately 20 minutes each time because I keep getting a sound icon with a blue bar across the middle of my screen. My computer is brand new. There is no specific pattern to when it pops up. It is completely...

Somehow I got the HomeGroup icon to show on the desktop and now I want to know how to remove it as I have already tried moving it to the recycle, but it didn't do anything help!

I don't know why the Local Disk D has that icon, how do I fix it?

how do i remove the run as administrator shield/icon on a program even though the 'run this program as administrator' button isn't selected?

Hello, Lately, I've been getting error messages every time I start my Windows. These error messages are related to the Windows Media Player. I know this because if I right click on the icon of the message on the taskbar, it says WMP something. And also the icon looks exactly like the Burn icon...

Hi, My application previously works well in XP. When I run it in Windows 7, I am facing some issue with taskbar icon. Please let me elaborate further. Let say the application executable is A.exe. A.exe can run on its own. It can accept some arguments e.g. "A.exe /B" and "A.exe /C". During the...

Hi All, I have this very odd problem in Windows 7 Ultimate, where all the other users except my main user's icon / button text has disappeared, as per the screen shots below: The first account I setup is still fine, but all the other accounts is giving me this problem. And it only happens on...

Safely Remove Hardware: where did the icon go?

This is funny one. When i connect an ethernet to the ethernet port on my laptop I can the icon for "identifying..." but as soon as my network gets identified i get the red cross as if nothing is connected. If i fly over the red cross icon i get "internet access" browsing etc is fine. Im doing...

what does it mean when there's a little shield on an icon?

Here is a screen shot: Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

My old computer, which died yesterday -_-, had windows XP on it and I was able to customize the icons ( size/not be able to place wherever). After I got W7 I noticed you can resize to w/e you want for the most part but it also made the other prints according to what size you created. Also I...