Hi Marilyn, If I'm not mistaken, there is a desktop clean-up wizard, which you can use to highlight the stuff you don't want on your desktop, and the wizard places them into a folder on your desktop called deleted desktop items or something like that.
In any case, what Walt said and Hailley said are both 100% true, not just one or the other. While it's true that the majority of the icons on your desktop tend to be shortcuts to items in your start menu, there are some files that happen to be placed there by accident or by design, depending on what you wanted to do with them. For example, when you download a file or a program set-up file, people will sometimes save it onto their desktop, to avoid confusion, then go directly to their desktop when they want to play the file, or run the set-up program file. These files are the ones you want to move, as Walt said, but in other cases, the files are just shortcuts to programs in your start menu and in most of those cases, you can delete them, and if you want easier access to them, you can go into your start menu, highlight the item you think you'll be using most often, for example, Norton Anti-virus Live Update, this is just an example, you would go to the Norton sub-menu, then arrow to Live Update, and press the applications key. At that point, some Jaws versions don't tell you that the applications menu is open, so you can just arrow up to Properties, and hit enter. Once the dialog box pops-up, just tab over to the shortcut key box and enter a shortcut keystroke. For example, to minimize the number of keystrokes I use I just made a shortcut keystroke for Outlook Express as ctrl+alt+O, and this opens up Outlook Express right away. No having to go to my desktop or start menu or anything, but I'm getting side tracked, so I'll continue with your problem.... I guess the easiest way I use to find out whether these desktop items are shortcuts to start menu items or not, is to open the My Documents folder, then hit backspace several times until you can't go back anymore. At this point, you are on the desktop and viewing it just like a folder, which essentially, is what your Desktop is, and as well, you can arrow through your desktop items just like you were doing it in a folder. So the trick is to find out which items have extensions and which do not. For example, The My Documents folder will not have an extension. Internet Explorer will not have an extension, as well as, Gold Wave, Sound Forge or Jaws. What might have an extension might be items like What I did last night.txt or My Diary.txt or install files like setup.exe, and if this is the case, you'll have to run the file to find out which program it belongs to, but in either case, if you don't need those files anymore, you can just delete it from that window, and it will be removed from your desktop. In conclusion, both Walt's and Hailley's explanations were correct, they were just offering different points of view. Victor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
