Ranulph,
Go to the finder menu and go into preferences, under the general tab you can 
tick the box according to what you would like to appear on the desktop.


On 14 Apr 2011, at 08:07, Ranulph Glanville wrote:

> I've just got a new air book (smaller), I wonder why I should need an ipad: 
> this seems to do much the same, but is more usable.
> 
> I got it because both my 17 ins books stopped working at the same time. In 
> one the battery burst. In the other, I think it's the disc: a problem I took 
> to my local repairer, who said it didn't exist. I'm abroad, and caught in the 
> need a machine syndrome that leaves little option but to buy another: what a 
> shame macs aren't serviced like cars, with a loan machine. Anyhow, that's 
> another machine seriously wrong 2x in 1 year.
> 
> Sam, of course, was endlessly helpful, but a machine on guarantee has to go 
> to a shop, etc. Thanks, Sam, yet again.
> 
> Now to my question: I notice that the hard disc which is my (new) machine 
> does not appear on the desktop. I wonder why, and what I can do to get it to 
> show. The os is 10.6.7.
> 
> Ranulph
> 
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