re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 8:22 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DickM
(7 messages posted)
Dan -- thanks for replying. I started looking closer at the tree structure and discovered
something I hadn't seen before -- apparently new to the Vista environment. I'll go
into detail here, because others may experience the same confusion I have
My user name on the computer is "Dick". If I look at the main roots when I click
"start-computer", I see "Desktop", under which are "Dick", "Public", and "Computer".
If I expand "Computer" and click "(c:)", "Users" -- I again see "Dick". I have a
personal folder called "Data" under "Dick". If I drag anything to the desktop from
that folder, everything works OK and appears on the desktop. Previously I was dragging
out of the folder "Dick/Data" which appears directly under "Desktop". Anything dragged
from that location to the desktop appears in the right window if I click on "Desktop",
but no icon appears on the desktop.
Here's my confusion: why is there is a user folder called "Dick" in both places.
I don't understand the folder directly under "Desktop" and it exhibits the odd behavior
with dragging -- which the same apparent folder under c:users/dick/data doesn't!
Now I'm wondering if all this is somehow connected to my inability to share the Data
folder over my home network. I see the folder from other computers, the permissions
are all set to share, but access is denied.
Whatever has changed with Vista, I'm not "getting". Enlightenment would be appreciated!
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