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- From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- Subject: Re: Enormous Desktop!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.231444.27715@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <19930102095813.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:14:44 GMT
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- h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
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- >I keep icons that I use frequently on the visible part of the desktop, and
- >things that I seldom of never use (Minimized Window Viewer, OS/2 Help, etc.)
- >off the left side of the screen. Consequently, my desktop is about 1.5
- >times the screen size, with a scroll bar at the bottom.
- >
- >Somehow, my desktop definition has got screwed up so that a few icons are
- >far, far to the right (not politically speaking :-) If I click on the
- >arrow part of the scroll bar, the desktop doesn't move that I can tell.
- >If I click in the empty part of the scroll bar (to scroll a page), the
- >icons move, but the thumb of the scroll bar does not perceptibly move.
- >This means that the desktop is absolutely *HUGE*. I tried looking at
- >the .INI files with EDITINI, but it's not obvious to me what to change.
- >Any help to bail me out would be greatly appreciated. I *WILL* start
- >backing up my desktop as soon as I have one worth backing up...
- >
-
- Open the desktop settings, hit "arrange", that will bring all your icons back
- to the real world. Then hand arrange to taste. Serves six.
-
- [sam]
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