Go to Control Panel > Display I'm on Win7 and that's the fastest way to keep a larger display. If you want temporary, hold down CTRL key and tap the + key.

Thats probably was on your QuickLaunch toolbar. Default location is sort of next to the Start Button ? Usually a couple other shortcuts there, just drag and drop it between two ... kind of a hard place to drop in the right spot sometimes. You can... Open the folder with a path something like this and drag and drop it into there, then drag it around on the QuickLaunch toolbar to get things back in order like you like. C:\Documents and Settings\mike\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch (Sometimes quicker/easier, for me anyhow, is to open the popup and duplicate an existing icon with the make shortcut, then do properties on it and change it to IE path.)

Caroline, I use Internet Explorer as my browser, and my operating system is Windows XP Pro. The default location for the icon for a new shortcut is this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\url.dll That's where you end up with the icon that looks just like the Internet Explorer icon. You already know how to get to the point where you can change the icon, so click on "Browse" to change locations and then go to: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll There are a lot of icons to choose from in that dll.

At the risk of sounding real dumb, what is the desktop tile??? Is a tile one of those squares that is displayed in a group after the PC boots up? With program names inside? Sometimes, when I booted up, a bunch of squares and rectangles appear together and they start programs when I touch them. They will have pgm names inside. I used to touch one that had IE inside but it was not an user friendly IE. I have not seen anything else with IE in it. But the squares with IE/etc no longer display any longer. I have no idea what I did but am now getting (when I boot up) a screen that looks like a desktop screen would look like in XP but with the PC Maker's Name (Toshiba) in the background and a handful of icons (Recycle Bin; Desktop Assist, etc). I think I ended here by touching one of the squares. But there is no (obvious) way to return back to the view that had all those squares. I tried touching from the left to the right and other combinations. No dice. Without the squares, I have not been able to get back into IE ever since (which is why I could not reply sooner); I am using another computer. This post was edited by luis_pr on Tue, Aug 20, 13 at 8:02