** Wayne Stallwood wayne.stallwood@btinternet.com [2003-06-02 09:17]:
On Sunday 01 June 2003 09:04, Paul Tansom wrote:
I also don't have any icons on the desktop apart from a trash can - it doesn't affect my usage, but is a little concerning since I'm sure there should be some!
Just the Trash can is perfectly normal for XP. There was a paragim shift in the user interface with XP whereby MS want you to launch everything from the start menu. You can put icons on the desktop (actually right clicking on the properties of some things in the start menu will give you the option of "Show on Desktop") But often XP will prompt to ask you if it can clean up the desktop and delete unused icons.
Interesting, every XP machine I've worked on so far (ooh, all of two, so not a significant number!) has had the standard icons on the desktop so I'd not twigged that there had been a change.
Actually this is the way I work on most of my machines. There is nothing I hate more than a desktop cluttered with icons.
Ditto, although on my Windows boxes I do leave the odd one - not worked out why yet as I rarely use them because they're always behind a window of some sort. On Linux I use Enlightenment and there's nothing on the desktop bar the pagers and a small button bar (for starting mail and a shell). When I'm in Windows I really miss the ease of just clicking the desktop and choosing my application - and now XP added another level to go through on the Start menu to get to the one I want!
As to Windows users who use the Desktop as a home directory.....ahhhhhhgggghhhhh.
Don't get me started on that one!
So with my install I've cracked the networking with a post install reconfigure. The desktop issue isn't an install failure, which is good. So that leaves the drives to sort out - I suspect they'll come down to a single issue somewhere, but getting a removable drive as C and the install as M is intriguing given the fact that Windows has always had to put at least something on the C drive (which doesn't have a disk in!).
** end quote [Wayne Stallwood]