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re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 5:43 pm
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Posted by Bob B (1139 messages posted)


Does doing a refresh (F5 or right-click and choose "Refresh") make a difference?


On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1:55 pm, DickM wrote:
>When dragging (or copying) a file from a directory directly to the Desktop, the operation
>is performed, but no ICON appears on the desktop. If the Desktop is viewed in the
>folders dialog box, the file is there, and can be dragged back into another folder.
>
>If the file in question isn't dragged directly to the desktop, but instead to the
>Desktop in the folder tree, the ICON then appears on the desktop.
>
>This looks like a Vista error. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks! Dick


Written in response to:
Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (DickM: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1:55 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (DickM: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 8:28 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (DickM: Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 1:55 pm)
-re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (Bob B: Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 5:43 pm)
-re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (DickM: Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 8:28 pm)
-re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 9:04 pm)
-re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (DickM: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 8:22 am)
-re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (jabronne2: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 4:38 pm)
*re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop (DickM: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 6:10 pm)
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