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Questions tagged [desktop-icons]

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What are these green checkmarks on my Desktop icons?

I was playing the solitaire they added back in Windows 10 and when I closed it I noticed there were these green checkmarks on my Desktop icons: What are these green checkmarks on my desktop? How do I get rid of them?
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Organize desktop icons on Windows into categories or sections

I want to organize my Windows desktop icons by categories. Multimedia, system tools, editors, etc. I need to define rectangular areas of the desktop, then place the shortcut icons. They would stay locked into place forever in the category until I…
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Where are native Windows 8 icons located?

I'm talking about simple white icons that appears on start screen. I want to use them on shortcuts. So, I need a file or .dll that contains metro icons.
yakunins
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Desktop Icons Spaced Out?

My icons decided to s p a c e out a bit for some reason, and I can't seem to fix it. I've tried googling solutions, but to no avail. Here's a picture: Quite spaced out and kind of annoying. Could someone please tell me how to reset to Windows'…
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How to prevent black boxes on desktop icons in Windows after removing shortcut arrows?

When removing shortcut arrows using the regedit value %windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50 in Shell Icons 29, black boxes cover up my desktop icons where the shortcut arrows used to be. How do I fix it?
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Drag & Drop (a file) to Desktop Icons ceased to open it, Replaced with "Move to Desktop"

I used to be able to drag and drop files to some of my desktop icons (e.g. Notepad++, AstroGrep, etc.) to open them with the applications represented by those icons. About a month ago (can't recall exactly when this happened), the system stopped…
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How to display "My Computer" icon on a Windows 10 desktop?

I just installed Windows 10 on my PC, but I didn't find any way to set "My Computer" icon to show on my desktop. How can I place it on my desktop?
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How can I change the desktop icon size in Windows 7 without the mouse wheel?

Possible Duplicate: How do I reduce the desktop icon size in Windows 7? In Windows 7, you can use Ctrl + the mouse wheel to change your icon size on your desktop. How do you do this on a laptop without any scroll wheel?
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Windows 10 desktop Icons rearrange when I change displays

I have two displays. Monitor 1 is 60hz 2650 x 1440 Monitor 2 is actually a drawing tablet, 1920 x 1080. I've had the tablet for a year and the monitor since I got my computer in 2017, but lately, I don't know if it was from an update or from when…
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Even smaller Windows 11 desktop icons

Just after installation, desktop icons were quite small, way smaller than on Windows 10, and this suited me well. Then having once clicked right button on desktop and choosing "View", I accidentally clicked on "Small icons". As a result, the icons…
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Windows 10 randomly places new desktop icons in top left corner

Sometimes when I, for example, extract a folder from an archive with WinRAR to the desktop, the folder gets placed in the top left corner of the desktop and messes up the ordering of other icons. But when I move the folder to a proper position, move…
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How to change icons set for all common filetype in windows 8.1?

I'm using windows 8.1 and want to replace all my current icon set with Free File Icons. How to do that? These are the list of free icons offered in the set: AAC, AI, AIFF, AVI, C, CPP, CSS, DAT, DMG, DOC, EXE, FLV, GIF, H, HPP, HTML, ICS, JAVA,…
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How can I change desktop icon spacing in Windows 8?

I can't seem to specify a per theme Windows desktop icon spacing. It used to be possible in Windows 7, to embed this in your theme (mystyle file). I cant find the effect in Winodws 8, and I wonder if its still in the style file and our acess has…
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Gnome Settings - gsettings vs gconftool-2

In GNOME 3 desktop icons are hidden by default. I tried to show them up this way: gconftool-2 --set -t bool /org/gnome/desktop/background/show-desktop-icons true It didn't work. So I tried: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background…
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How can I make the icon font color on a windows 7 prof desktop work?

I have C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Scenes\img25.jpg as wallpaper (I think it's a standard windows wallpaper.) The desktop icon font color is white. It cannot be read without heavy eye pain. I want it to be black. I couldn't change the icon font color…
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