Hi Peter,

I did not have viewing of hidden and system files turned on.  It is 
turned on now.  I have no idea why it would be a hidden or system file, 
though.  I guess I'll see.  one thing that I do not like is that the 
"thumbs.db" file now becomes visible on the Desktop.  Any way to get rid 
of that file only on the desktop?

I guess I got spoiled.  I had WinXP Home on my previous computer and 
none of these things came up.  This is WinXP Pro XP2 and it seems to be 
much, much different from XP Home.

I also got a new MS Office 2003 Pro on here and I've having a terrible 
time trying to figure out how to copy from Word to MS Publisher.  I 
never had a problem with the MS Office 2000 that I had on my other 
computer.  Can anybody point me to somewhere I can learn about how to us 
the MS Office 2003 clipboard?  Or, possibly, how I can turn it off 
completely so that I can copy between applications like I can do with 
every other program in the world?

Based on all the "fun" I've had so far, Vista better be very, very good 
before I'll touch it.

Thanks...

Loy

Peter wrote:
> Just a thought. In Windows Explorer, do you have enabled the viewing of
> hidden and system files? It is possible that the desktop file is there but
> you can't see it. Why is should become a hidden or system file is another
> question - if that turns out to be the case.
>
> As to seeing the file icon on the desktop, it could possibly be positioned
> off the viewing area of the screen. If you have auto arrange enabled, then
> this should not be a problem.
>
> Peter
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> Now, let me make it even more interesting--after an instance of the above
> happening, using Windows Explorer, I went looking for where the file was
> saved.  It was not on any of the user or system administrator desktops.  So,
> I saved the file, again, to a 'temp' account I created and then tried to
> move it to the "me user" desktop.  To my surprise, Windows told me that the
> file was already there and asked if I wanted to replace it.  I said "yes"
> and it replaced it, but, again, I could not find it on the desktop.  So, I
> restarted Windows and, tadaaaa, there the file was on the desktop.
>
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