John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Thu Aug 22 16:24:41 CDT 2013
Right click on desktop - choose personalize - add the icons you wish. For startup programs use either ccleaner or to be completely thorough (and possibly overwhelmed) use MS's Autoruns. Or use one of the programs that makes it look and work like Windows 7. Kathryn over on DBA-Tech recommends: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/download.asp -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:48 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Windows XP I have it on my Win 8 desktop, but I'll be dipped if I can figure out how I did it. Now I'm trying to figure out how to handle startup programs! Charlotte On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote: > Arthur: > > I have always had a shortcut to 'Computer' on my desktop. I'm using > W8 on my new laptop but usually bail out to the W7 desktop. I sued to > hit the Start button and then click ''Computer or drag 'Computer' to > the desktop for a shortcut. But can't figure out how to get that done > in W8. Do you know? > > I also have a problem on the W8 desktop triggering the icons along the > right side for settings, search, etc. Seems that when I'm really > trying to get those icons to appear I can't. Then after a few tries > they do appear. Is there a trick to that? > > Thanks > > Rocky > > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com