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right click on the desktop, go to "Arrange Icons by" and make sure "show desktop icons" is checked

 

. . . you win.

Haha, I feel like a total idiot. Ah well, thanks a lot hush.

 

its ok man, at least it'll never happen again, eh? you learned your lesson, now feel free to make someone else look like a douche (go and uncheck their "show desktop icons" and see them get flustered)

 

All of that aside, I'm now curious. Why would disabling that option distort my background image?

 

All of that aside, I'm now curious. Why would disabling that option distort my background image?

It dosn't

 

It dosn't

Well, re-checking it corrected the image

 

It dosn't

yes it does. try setting a picture that's slightly below your desktop res and choosing "stretch" in the desktop properties. i.e. pick an 800x600 pic and have it stretched if you have a 1024x768 desktop. then turn off desktop icons. it makes the pic look all pixelated.

 

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right click on the desktop, go to "Arrange Icons by" and make sure "show desktop icons" is checked

I can't imagine any legitimate reason for this feature. honestly, its like the ability to drag the start menu around to different parts of the screen. My grandmother does that 3 times a month and can never figure out how to put it back.

 

My grandmother does that 3 times a month and can never figure out how to put it back.

Why don't you just lock the taskbar?

yes it does. try setting a picture that's slightly below your desktop res and choosing "stretch" in the desktop properties. i.e. pick an 800x600 pic and have it stretched if you have a 1024x768 desktop. then turn off desktop icons. it makes the pic look all pixelated.

This only happens to me sometimes oO

 

I can't imagine any legitimate reason for this feature. honestly, its like the ability to drag the start menu around to different parts of the screen. My grandmother does that 3 times a month and can never figure out how to put it back.

for what feature? the ability to remove icons? maybe you're lazy, and you want all icons off your desktop. i dont have any icons on my desktop, but that's because i dont have any icons, i have XP hide my computer, and i use TweakUI to take off recycle bin

This only happens to me sometimes

i dunno, maybe it has something to do with jpegs? i never get it, because i always have show desktop icons on (showing my 0 icons)

 

Heh, even better is to take a picture of the current desktop (print screen, paste into paint, save, and set as background), hide desktop icons, and hide the taskbar. Then watch the victim pound on the computer for several minutes in frustration .

I was evil enough to do this to my little bro once. He was really confused - his brand new laptop was acting extremely screwy - none of the buttons worked, start menu didn't work... all he could do was right-click to bring up a menu (as long as he ignored the keyboard - which he kindly did ).

 

Heh, even better is to take a picture of the current desktop (print screen, paste into paint, save, and set as background), hide desktop icons, and hide the taskbar. Then watch the victim pound on the computer for several minutes in frustration .

so doing this to all of my friends. I have one who's been messing with my car recently.

 

i just google for gay porn and set it as the desktop. that gets em

 

Hushy would know...

*looks at Hushy's MSN display picture*

 

actually it's usually the other type of gay, the kind that more people find uncomfortable

 

Lesbian?

 

Lesbian?

He said UNcomfortable

 

you're sooooo dense, Vanit, it's unbelievable.

anyway since this thread has drifted wayyyy off topic (which it did after the first reply ) i'm closing it