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RE: Lost E icon on desktop

WAW8 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:54:17 GMT

mustang2000:

That link will walk you through the steps needed to restore the IE desktop icon. There are other such links around, but they all do essentially the same thing.

Evidently, MS has "hidden" the IE desktop icon in XP SP3, as well. Can't confirm that because I'm not running an XP SP3 install that had the IE icon on the desktop -- but that's what is being claimed. And, the procedures for restoring the icon in those situations is much the same.

RE: Lost E icon on desktop

Jordus — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:49:11 GMT

Thats how it was in XP, sorry.

I hate it when microsoft removes a perfectly good working feature or option in the OS.

Anyway, ill look into it...ill let you know if i come up with anything.

RE: Lost E icon on desktop

mustang2000 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:57:29 GMT

yeah, that does seem easy, but there is no internet explorer icon on that menu. all thats there is recycle bin,control panel, network,users files, and computer.

RE: Lost E icon on desktop

Jordus — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:48:52 GMT

good greif just go into the personalize menu, click on "change desktop icons" and make sure the internet explorer box is checked.

RE: Lost E icon on desktop

kingofnexus — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:34:56 GMT

[Edit]What Jordus said below :)

Lost E icon on desktop

mustang2000 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:08:52 GMT

I lost the E {internet explorer} icon on my desktop. All i can do is get a shortcut back, but i want the original one back. I want it so i can acess Interent properties easily. i looked this up on yahoo, and found this. Does this really work? Any other, way to do this?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-internet-explorer-7-icon-to-the-desktop-in-windows-vista/