Something is going wrong with the shutdown of your machines. I’ve been using desktop icon Windows (ie 95 or above) since before it even betaed, and there’s only two conditions that make my desktop icons move, the first is what Swordmaker pointed out, poorly written games that screw with the screen resolution of the entire machine to run; and the second is something going wrong with the commitment of the desktop.ini on shutdown, which usually means something’s wrong with the machine that’s hosing the entire shutdown process. Might check that security software, it could be write protecting the ini or something else annoying, if the security software is Norton get rid of it because it’s doing a lot of bad things to the machines.
In Word 2003 the cursor goes away when you start typing.
If IE’s fonts are too small for your eyes you should probably change your screen resolution.
The magnify feature is a bad cludge, no doubt about it. Of course if you setup the computer so you could see the stuff you wouldn’t need it in the first place.
Thanks for the help, but the icon scrambling happens in both my Dell PC’s: one PC is 6 yrs old running Win 2K, and the other PC is 2 yrs old running Win XP.
I have Norton only on the old machine (never again, and never again anything Symantec), so it can’t be that because both machines do it.
Also, both machines don’t do it every time I reboot, maybe every other time I reboot.
As for the cursor—I have Word 2003, and my cursor (the blinking “I” shaped thing) remains in the way when I type, as it remains in the way as I write this reply to you.
All in all, these are just some of the annoyances that I live with because I’m tired of making a career of tracking them down to see if they can even be fixed. I have a regular job to do.
Computing is supposed to make work easier and more efficient—I have come to question whether for a very small business that is true.
In any event, I am forced to have PC’s in my business because my clients communicate information to me electronically, and expect replies by the same medium—however ridiculous and inefficient such communication often is (just as like telphoning the worker in the office next door is silly, so to is emailing someone you can telephone often silly and even more inefficient).
As for myself, only spreadsheets and letter-writing are the only two things truly beneficial to my small business.
The rest is hardly worth the headache.
Although some of it seems beneficial at first glance, even without the burden of incredible bug-chasing, those other apparent benefits usually aren’t in actual practice.