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Desktop Cleanup Wizard?? if I want to clean up my desktop then I will do it myself thank you very bloody much Mr Gates, anybody know how to disable this annoyance?, I will be roasted in hell before I allow my PC to tell me how I should have my desktop

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Toothpick
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ReD_eYe
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but what about all those unused icons


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Ian T
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2004 23:44
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Desktop Cleanup Wizard? What's that?

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Wik
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2004 23:47
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stupid


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Toothpick
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one of gate's minions, designed to perform a task you wouldn't mind doing your self
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2004 23:52
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its abit rubbish, no one likes it, dunno why its there, who cares???

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Posted: 24th Feb 2004 00:13
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Quote: "dunno why its there"


It's obviously to hard to delete things from your desktop.



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It's there so M$ could throw another feature on the package.


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Great Knight
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Try this. Go to run. Write. msconfig and turn it off there. See if that works.

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spooky
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Right click on desktop, select 'properties', click 'desktop' tab, click 'customize desktop' button at bottom. Uncheck box at bottom of screen.

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spooky
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It may not of crossed your mind also to use that option on Start button menu called 'Help and Support'. Run that, type 'desktop cleanup wizard' into search box and voila, a full description.

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DivW
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This Reminds me of the bloody stick keys. Pause to think and WHAM, everything's in caps. Bloody stupid wastes of time.

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Posted: 24th Feb 2004 04:02
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Disable the shortcut under the handycapt options thing in control pannel


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UnderLord
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yeah well all it did for me was take the least used icon's and make a file on my desktop and threw them in there called "unused desktop icons" or something.

Useless i say useless!

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best solution:

format hard drive
install win 2000 pro

use xp disk as beverage coaster

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Dave J
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Quote: "This Reminds me of the bloody stick keys. Pause to think and WHAM, everything's in caps. Bloody stupid wastes of time"


Agreed. That thing really gets to me, I disable it by unchecking the box but it makes no difference! And once it's enabled there seems know logical way to stop it. GAH! OH SHIT, IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN...


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can't remember how i got rid of sticky keys...

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Quote: "Desktop Cleanup Wizard?? if I want to clean up my desktop then I will do it myself thank you very bloody much Mr Gates, anybody know how to disable this annoyance?, I will be roasted in hell before I allow my PC to tell me how I should have my desktop

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Exactly what I said!

Things I don't like

- overtype
- cAPSLOCK (though in XP you can set it to make a beep when its switched on, what I use)
- sticky keys - argh! Hit ESC too many times when DBPro crashes and wham - Do You Want TO Turn On Stickykeys?

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Posted: 24th Feb 2004 20:21
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you don't like capslock?

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Posted: 24th Feb 2004 20:48
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spooky: thank you, another stupid and pointless utility disabled, why do they think I put those icons there in the first place DUH!?, surely not so that I can delete them?, loonies.

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ps: you mean the help file has help on something I would want to know??, thats gotta be a first

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Posted: 25th Feb 2004 03:10
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I'm pretty sure stickykeys has a 'never ask again' option, so I don't see a problem there
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Quote: " I'm pretty sure stickykeys has a 'never ask again' option, so I don't see a problem there"


The problem is it doesn't work, I have had it pop up four or five times. After the first time the "never ask again option" was selected

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In Xp, go to the Accesiblity menu in Control panel, and uncheck the Use Stickykeys box. Then you also have to click the Settings button, then uncheck the Use Shortcut box. After that, you should never see stickykeys again.

All these things are hideous abominations. Sure they might be useful to some people, but do they really have to be set to "on" as a default setting?

The only one of these "features" i've found useful is mousekeys, which lets you control the mouse cursor with the numpad. Useful when your mouse falls off the table and you're too lazy to pick it up.

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forget clean my desktop, what Windows needs is a program called "fix all the crap thats wrong with this operating system" that undoes all thoes useless sticky keys and retarded options noone ever needs anyways...stupid Bill...when will he learn...

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rather than all these useless "tools" maybe MS could create a spamproof e-mail system, I would also like to mention that the help system informs you that desktop cleanup wizard is wonderfull and then tells you how to use it DUH!, surely anyone that thick they need instruction on using the wizard AND think they need to use it couldn`t use a PC anyway? (well...without their keeper).

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lol i hate stickykeys. i somehow made it stop, maybe i told it to leave me alone enough.

"you don't like capslock?"

why would you use capslock for anything other than TYPING IN ALL CAPS?

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