Windows 7/Vista Desktop Icons Appearance

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:02 pm

This may be a dumb question, but I cannot find the answer anywhere, Google searches and looking at various settings.

My (2) Windows 7 computers, the desktop icons look like normal icons and if you click them once they get selected/highlighted, that's it.

But on several other peoples computers I've seen lately, if you click the icon on their desktop, not only is it selected/highlighted, but you get a small box in the upper left hand corner of the icon, like a "check box". What is causing this and how can it be changed back to the previous state, as I indicated mine is?

Thanks!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:16 pm

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76644 ... boxes.html

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:53 pm

The article mentions in Window Explorer, but does this also affect the desktop icons?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:10 pm

Qui-Gon John wrote:The article mentions in Window Explorer, but does this also affect the desktop icons?

Yes..try it, takes 3 seconds.
Your desktop is really just another folder.

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:19 pm

Thanks, just tried it. I wonder if some Windows Update was pushing that change as I have seen a lot more computers configured that way in the last few weeks.