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OT: Desktop icons vanishing. How to get rid of them?

Rich Grise wrote:

Actually, it was Tim Paterson (one T) who cloned CP/M. M$ bought it (QDOS) for a song from Tim (Seattle Computer Products).

...If only it hadn't happened that "Gary went flying":

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Joerg: According to some stuff I read on

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(can't find the reference now - it might have been in their book of tips and tricks) , Windows uses Explorer to display the desktop. We all know that Explorer occasionally crashes, and that would render a machine unusable. MS "fixed" this crash problem by creating another little task that runs in the background and constantly checks to make sure that Explorer is active and has not crashed. When it detects a crash, it restarts Explorer, and you'll see all your icons get reloaded as part of that Desktop restart.

Not sure if its what you see after hibernate mode, but it sounds like a similar thing. I could never get the W2K hibernate/power management stuff to work right on my machines. I turned them off. XP seems to work fine in that regard, however.

Steve

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Steve

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:bh0NCeGYrioJ:

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Running quite bare bones here. the names of the processes are quite different from this list but all checked and legit. Thing is, why does the tally of the process mem usages show a much smaller number than the performance graph?

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Joerg

Well, it even happens after a clean boot. Mostly after having used memory hogs such as OpenOffice.

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Joerg

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:bh0NCeGYrioJ:

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They were written by two different codemonkeys, so one's in metric, and the other's in imperial? ;-)

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Rich Grise

Ah yes, the imperial bit! How could I forget?

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Joerg

Why do you have to replace that desktop?

Dell has some systems with XP, but as far as I know you have to click on the "small business" link. The "Home and Home Office" has Vista only.

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Michael

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mrdarrett

It's very tired and falling apart.

Yep, Dell still has XP. I recall reading that JL wasn't too happy with their desktops. I can't say that about their laptops, they have been good to me. Never a single failure.

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Joerg

That's about right for Vista. Win2K isn't nearly that bad, though I have 3GB on the system. Memory is cheap.

No way! I wouldn't (never did) run any Win9x version. NT3 wasn't stable at all. NT4 was a little better and I did switch to it at work (needed for tools). Win2K finally worked well and M$ couldn't have that. It's been downhill since.

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krw

'tis why I hung on to it :-)

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Joerg

I have a few folders on the desktop, and move shortcuts into where I want it. I turned on the desktop toolbar, and click on it, select the folder, and see a list of what is in the folder so the only icons on my desktop are the group folders, and system icons.

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