Hi Cris, That may have been what happened but I use nearly all that disappeared daily to keep my machine cleaned from garbage. I have replaced all the short cuts on the DTop but have found another problem that bothers me more. I can defrag all of my drives except C. It errors when ever I try with: 'Error ScanFat:scan aborted - fatal Error:\?\C:\PAGE FILE.SYS' Any suggestions for this problem? I would like to know how to disable that cleaning of the desktop of all icons """NOT BEING USED""" I use them all with great frequency! TIA Rocky de Dragon ----- Original Message ----- From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 8:56 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: PCTechTalk HELP How do you change it?I don't like it. I always say no when it asks. It has no rhyme or reason to it. Says I'm not using icons that I use every week!! Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: David F. Wooledge To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 12:46 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: PCTechTalk HELP Rocky, Perhaps the Clean Desktop of unused icons program ran. I think it is set to automatically run every so often unless you change it. Dave To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk