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Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 5:01 pm
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Posted by Rob (245 messages posted)

Hi, Simply right click on the desktop, and highlight (hold the cursor over) the first option "Arrange Icons By" and then look at the resulting list to see if there is a check next to "Lock Web Items on Desktop". If there is a check, left click on this line to uncheck it. Hope this helps. Rob

On Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 4:03 pm, Pam wrote:
>Hi,
>Thanks for the suggestion. One more question. How do I know if I have locked the
>icons to my desktop? I obviously do not know how to do this, but some software that
>I recently installed may have done this. Can I fix it if I delete shortcuts?
>Warmly,
>Pam
>
>

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