DA, I don't log in, but as far as I know I'm "Owner/PC" Ravencajun, there is no "Run as administrator" selection in the box that a right click brings up when I right click on the shortcut. Justme4now, I downloaded that program and it goes into WinRAR but I have no idea where it goes or what to do with it after that? I also should mention that this shortcut doesn't even act as a shortcut any more! When I click on it as you would to operate a normal shortcut, a box comes up with another message:- "The target** of this Internet shortcut is not valid. Go to the Internet shortcut property sheet and make sure the target is correct" Where or what is an Internet shortcut property sheet?? And how does one get there? I don't know how I got myself into this one???

google just recently changed their logo and icon to the lower case g. But in some places the original upper case G is still in use. I have been seeing both also. This is the link to the official Google blog about the change of icon. blogged more They have been saying it may not be their final choice and I have to say I hope they do not keep the lower case g, they had a great brand recognizable icon with the upper case G, why mess with it? It was what everyone knew and recognized. if you happen to have firefox there is a neat little add-on called favicon picker 2 that lets you pick the favicon of your choice and google is one of the ones you can choose. Here is the link to favicon picker Plus you can save that capitol G icon to your pc and then by using the change icon option put that capitol G in place as the icon for Google on your pc. Just do a regular google search, when the search is returned go to the bottom of the page where the Gooooooogle is displayed, right click on the G and save as to your pc, you now have the capitol G to use as your icon. Here are the directions on how to do that if you need them. Go to the Google home page, and enter any old search criteria, providing it'll return more than one page of results. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and right-click on the "G" of "Gooooooooooogle". A menu will pop up; from here follow the instructions relevant to your version of Windows. Windows XP: click on "Save picture as", and select "Bitmap" as the file type, give it a sensible name (such as "Google G") and save it somewhere safe -- C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ is probably as good a place as any. Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000: click on "Copy". Open Paint (Start/Accessories/Paint), set the image size to 1x1 pixels (it's in "Image properties" or somewhere -- I don't have 9x installed anywhere any more so I can't check, sorry!) Now select Edit/Paste; Paint will ask you if you want the image enlarged -- click "Yes". Now select File/Save, and save the picture as a bitmap somewhere safe -- see the XP instructions above. All versions: once the "G" is saved somewhere, right click on the shortcut icon. Click on "Change icon..." and type the path and filename you saved the "G" as, for example "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Google G.bmp". Click "Ok" then "Ok" again, and that's it! Now right-click on the shortcut on your desktop, then click on "Change icon..." Click "Browse" IF you are a firefox user and use greasemonkey they have a script for it. Here is a link that might be useful: favicon picker

Perhaps if you had an extremely ridiculous amount of icons on the Desktop it would effect your startup. However, in general they are of little concern. The main negative would be the active applications they could represent. These applications are the ones being initialized during startup and are all-too-often not needed as they can easily be accessed on-demand through the Start Menu. It seems today every time you install an application it wants to install a Desktop icon, a Quick Launch icon and a Start menu entry. This for the average user is over kill. Personally I have only four on my Desktop and two are pointed to the Recycle Bin and one I created for Windows Explorer. On my Quick Launch I have Windows Mail, Firefox and IE8. Everything else I can readily access from the Start Menu, and I like looking at my grandchildren a lot better than DT clutter. DA

You might try copying the URL and pasting it in your browser location bar. If it doesn't connect when you hit the enter key try deleting the part after the last / and press the enter key again. If it connects then you can try to find what your're lookn ing for there. If you do find it you can copy and paste it in the properties section of your shortcut. The shortcut would then work.