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Win95 Arranges Desktop Icons It's Way
What I really want to know is how to get the Access name from the General tab of a desktop icon. I know XP is - MS Access XP 2000 is - MS Access 2000 97 is - Access 97 I need to know this because when a user starts my application, I have two versions they can use. One version is for Access 97 users and the other is

Desktop Icon Problems
Then when you single click on the icon the background color changes to the select color indicating the icon has been single clicked. In these previous versions of windows you go to display properties, click on appearance, then in the item drop down you select desktop, and then whatever color you select for the

mailto: shortcut opens up Outlook Express, not new message
netINVALID microsoft public win2000 general Hi Phil, The original Recycle Bin Desktop Icon (with special properties such as right-click > Properties > Display delete confirmation dialog) can be hidden in various ways. For example, by third-party programs such as TweakUI, by editing the registry, or by using Group

disconnecting
Hilary Karp hilaryk...@comcast.nospam.net microsoft public windowsxp general What's the program the icon is for? Does it happen to all icons? properties window when I right click on an icon on the desktop I get the option for Properties but after I click on it No Properties Window for that desktop icon appears.

Properties
Can anyone tell me how to hide the properties tab of the MY Computer desktop ICON. The goal is to prohibit the user from having the ability to dis-join the machine from the network. Currently, each user is an Admin of their machine. Thanks, CT.

Desktop icon properties
What that fails to point out is that this is a non-standard technique and any changes made by that method are transient, colours set in Display Properties are re-applied each time the Desktop is refreshed - such as when coming out of screensaver mode, logging on or hitting F5 while a Desktop Icon has focus.

IE 5.00.2919.6307 does not register itself correctly?
When I left click (double-click) on this desktop icon, nothing happens, probably related to the same thing which prevents an action from being displayed in the context menu. When I select "Properties" from the context menu, I do get the Internet Properties control. Looking for the string "Open &Home Page" on a good

Program for Properties of desktop Icons
Bob Schor Mark Musolino wrote: Users without administrator priviledges on our network (Win NT 4) cannot access Outlook -- that is, they cannot open Outlook or access the properties box by right clicking on the desktop icon. It certainly seems that this is a permissions-related problem, but as far as I can tell,

no properties window for desktop icon in windows xp
You can do this by right-clicking on the shortcut and choosing properties. In this way you can choose a icon by clicking on change icon in the properties dialog box. But, I only seem to be able to do this with a shortcut only not in a spreadsheet I have copied onto the desktop. I know I can change the icon of an

Desktop Icon text background color question when using varying ...
rich ri...@urs2.net microsoft public win95 general discussion On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 14:28:32 -0700, Default User <ndo...@puyallup.k12.wa.us> wrote: If you right click on a program icon on your desktop, then click on properties, you can assign a shortcut key to start the program. I did that with a program.

Desktop Icon not working
Right-click on your desktop IE icon > Properties > Connections tab and click "Never dial a connection". Right-click on your desktop porn icon, and choose/click Properties. This dialog will give you the path to the *.exe file. *Note it, for now.* Also, (previously mentioned) goto your Control Panel: check Dial-up

Hiding the "Properties" tab from the MY Computer desktop ICON
Steve age...@bellsouth.net microsoft public windowsxp network_web I have a PIII 1000 XP Pro system that is very slow accessing some but not all desktop icon properties when it is logged on to a Windows 2000 domain. My Computer and Recycle Bin properties are immediate. All other properties to shortcuts are very slow

XP desktop icon properties bar??
What I have just discovered is that, if I drag the shortcut to my Quicklaunch toolbar, the icon changes from the OE envelope to an IE icon and going into 'Properties' in this icon brings up a second shortcut tab to accompany the General tab - this tab does not appear in the desktop icon Properties?

Slow retrieval of desktop icon properties when connected to Win ...
How to Change the My Documents Folder Storage Location When the properties of the My Documents folder (the desktop icon) are displayed and a group policy has not been established to redirect the folder, you can change the path to the My Documents folder and you can move the contents from the old location to the new

Desktop icons not getting removed on uninstall...
If it has, select right, apply/ok out. -- Brian A. "Jeff" <jeff.dun...@sendit.nodak. edu> wrote in message news:05a101c2f94e$3034d7d0$3001280a@phx.gbl... When I click on my desktop icon with the left side mouse button. The properties box appears. The application does not open. It is windows 98. Any Suggestions?

DAD properties are gone
You could still make out the original icons beneath the bright blue e of IE 4. If you looked at the icon property of one of those objects, you would again see the superimposed e. If you tried to replace the icon, it would show correctly on the icon property dialog, but once you clicked OK, the desktop icon would

Get Rid Of My Porn
Miles miles.charleswo...@ntlworld.com microsoft public windowsxp general Jeff, I believe what you want to do is as follows :- Right Click on Desktop Select Properties Select Desktop tab Select 'Customize Desktop' Then tick the Internet Exporer box in the General tab Miles "Jeff" <stapetu...@mediaone.net> wrote in

Enabling Shortcut Commands On Icon Properties
G. Ralph Kuntz, MD g...@usa.net comp os ms-windows programmer I am looking for a tool to allow me to edit properties of the the desktop icons from a script without user intervention. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Ralph.

desktop icon properties
Hamilton hamil...@polese.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Does anyone know how to set the property of the Desktop Icon labels back to transparent? I applied the Office XP SP2 last week and it changed the background of the Icon labels from transparent to some bluish color. The funny thing is it's just

Outlook 2000 properties shortcut key
The details say something about a page fault error. But Explorer seems to be the only program to crash. Now, a couple weeks later, I consistently get an error whenever the I select properties of a desktop icon. Is there a way to reinstall Explorer only or manually extract it from the cab files?