I downloaded firefox 2 to my desktop.

Bad move...

When I opened firefox for the first time it created around 20 files and folders and put them on my desktop.

I created a nice little folder and put them all in there.

I opened firefox... And it created the files on the desktop again.

AAAARGH!!!!

Is there anyway I can move the installation from desktop to my documents (or anywhere off my frigging desktop really)?

Or do I have to uninstall / reinstall again?

[Rhapsody]

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Is there anyway I can move the installation from desktop to my documents (or anywhere off my frigging desktop really)?
Or do I have to uninstall / reinstall again?

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You could copy & paste them into a file in your documents or program files and then delete the ones from your desktop.
(or)
You can right click on your desktop and then click on Arrange Desktop Icons and then go to Show Desktop Icon and the icons will be hidden, but they are still there for you to see then when you need one of them - just repeat action you performed to hide then and they will reappear.

Good Luck...........................


LoVe,
Rhapsody -

Thankyou for that.
I shall try it tonight.
I'll let you know what happens

Okay. I cut and pasted them so I wouldn't have to delete them after copying.

Then when I launched Firefox it put another 20 something files on my desktop.

This is Firefox 2.

I think I'll just uninstall the program and install Firefox.

There is a firefox message board support site. They said the problem was that my profile had the directory on my desktop but it shouldn't have been and thus I needed to create a new profile.

Anyway upside is that I no longer have firefox putting crap on my desktop. Also... My computer seems to be moving a little more swiftly than it used to...

Downside is that I managed to delete everything off my desktop except for:

My Computer
I Tunes (Thank God!)
Kodak EasyShare
QuickTime Player (What is that for anyways?)
D-Link AirPlus Utility (Apparantly chat will be blocked by firewall because they care about people clogging wireless not the non-wireless access)
Adobe Reader
VLC Media Player
Firefox
Trash.

Minimilist Desktop. Goodo.

Lucky I have backups of my work at work or I'd be trying to do a system restore about now.

Sheesh.

(To be fair I decided all by myself that it would be a good idea to delete the old profile because I am contientious about my computer being clogged up with useless crap... The message board peoples were terrific. Someone posted that I should be careful not to... But too late oops)