If you find yourself hunting for shortcuts amid a chaos of icons on your desktop, use these tips to restore order to the Windows backdrop. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Q: I have many icons on my desktop. Some have a little white box in the lower left hand corner and in this box is a black curved arrow pointing to the upper right hand corner. What are these little ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...

If it seems like the desktop shortcuts on your Windows 7 keep disappearing, you're not hallucinating. Windows 7 automatically deletes broken and network shortcuts if there are too many. Here's how to ...

A desktop overloaded with shortcuts and a taskbar filled with pinned apps can make your desktop look messy and harder to navigate. Fortunately, Windows offers plenty of customization options to make ...

In the November 2008 issue, page 105, I suggested ways to easily hide desktop shortcuts of confidential material. I suggested moving them off the desktop, out of sight to the Start menu, which only ...

Chuck Miller wrote to say that when he tries to drag a favoritedesktop shortcut Icon onto his taskbar, it won’t stay there — itremains on the desktop. OK, let’s start at the beginning: Why put an icon ...

There's a keyboard shortcut to show the desktop on most (GNOME-based) Linux systems—Ctrl+Alt+D, or sometimes just Windows+D. If you like having an actual button to drop down, à la Windows, you can ...

Man, I've been a topic-starting-whore in here recently.<br><br>Last one for a while, I swear. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common ...