don't confuse her, you can just create sub folders. like move all ms cuts like word, excel, etc into a sub folder called office 2003. Bryan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:03 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: question: deleting desktop items > > Hi, Marilyn - > > Well, Hailley's statement isn't 100% correct. If you have downloaded > programs on your desktop, when you press the DEL key, you'll actually > delete > the entire program, not simply an icon, so you need to be careful. What I > do > is perhaps a bit more techie, but it's really the only safe way: > > If something really _is_ a program and not simply an icon, I open the > C-drive, open the Documents and Settings folder, open the folder with my > account name on it, open the Desktop folder, and move the program files > somewhere else. I have a folder called Internet Downloads where I store > all > of my downloads, but occasionally, something will get placed on the > desktop > by accident, so I'll move it from C:\Documents and Settings\Walt\Desktop > to > C:\Internet Downloads. > > Hope this helps clarify things. By the way, if you do press the DEL key on > something on the desktop, it should identify it in the pop-up confirmation > message as an icon, a file, or whatever, so you _should_ receive some > warning in advance, but I'd be just a little leery trusting this too much. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marilyn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:30 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] question: deleting desktop items > > > > Hi, everyone: my desktop has about 60 items on it so how do I cut items > without having them disappear forever? It seems that there is a lot of > stuff that is already on my start menu but I don't want to zap anything > major. Thanks. marilyn > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
