IE7 and Vista

[SuzukiGSX1300R08]

IE7 in Vista. How do i make the internet explorer 7 icon in windows vista permanent and not a shortcut? Why would microsoft even do this, i think it is the stupidest thing ever.

 

[PC eye]

You can't make anything on the desktop permanent. Windows itself is simply a larger combination of GUIs that are loaded into memory. Desktop icons are all shortcuts to either something found in the Start menu>Programs or a direct link to an executable in a folder somewhere on one drive or another.

 

[Kornowski]

If you want you can use IconTweeker to remove the little white arrow showing it's a shortcut?

Like so:

 

[StrangleHold]

Yea all desktop icons are shortcuts!

 

[vonfeldt7]

Yea all desktop icons are shortcuts!

yup. Also, I would use firefox if I were you...(but thats just me)

 

[Kornowski]

Yeah, but you can remove the icon like in the screenshot I posted, It makes it look a lot neater in my opinion.

 

[SuzukiGSX1300R08]

Nah i meant like, in XP if you right click on IE you can click properties and get to the internet explorer properties, its just a few less steps than opening it up and going to internet tools or going into the control panel.

 

[PC eye]

Another thing to point out is that if an icon was made permanent what happens when IE 8 comes out and you want to install that? You would then see two IE icons buried into the desktop which would present the problem of how to change the background then.

 

[SuzukiGSX1300R08]

when upgrading from 6 to 7 on xp the icon was just updated to the newest version

 

[Laptop]

If you want you can use IconTweeker to remove the little white arrow showing it's a shortcut?

Like so:

what is IconTweeker ? Where do we get that from ? Can we tust it? because atm i dont have any internet security. so....

 

[PC eye]

Icon Tweaker is a freeware seen at http://joost.endoria.net/home It is also found at downloads.com which is relatively clean of adwares and spywares. Get some AVG and other tools for cleaning adwares up.

 

[Jiffyman]

Yeah you should definitely get some anti spware and virus. AVG and Spyware terminator are good. By the way PC eye thanks for pointing me in the right direction of some anti spyware and virus definitely better than my Mcafee and Windows Defender I never did thank you for that so thanks a bunch.

 

[PC eye]

Those two work together pretty well along with the last 6.0 version of Ad-Aware SE Personal. That one is still available at http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html

I've been evaluating the new beta of Ad-Aware 2007 on both XP and Vista lately. The "fast scan" option seen on the new one actually takes far longer to run through the scanning process and has seen locks in Vista. But it seems to run good in both 32bit versions of XP. That one is readily available at http://www.lavasoft.com