Rebellious icons
Hi,
I'm lucky. While two problems plague my computer use (Vista Home on a Toshiba laptop), both are irritants rather than impediments. Nonetheless, I'd be grateful for any help in fixing them:
1. My Google clock in the Google Sidebar: it now has a black face (I guess I inadvertently clicked something) and it formerly had the orange face I chose. How do I restore it to the way it was before? Also, when I restored it after it disappeared (and it came back with the black clock face), it also provided a quick-search Google Desktop box at the bottom right of my screen (above the System Tray). How do I get rid of this box, since to use Google Desktop I can just click on the System Tray icon?
2. My desktop icons rearrange themselves willy-nilly whenever my computer starts up. How do I get them to stay in the order I arranged them in? I Googled this problem and discovered others have encountered this, too - and were not slow to point out that recommended "fixes" didn't work. They didn't work for me either. One recommendation was to tick "Align To Grid" - and, like others, I found after doing this that the icons' lay-out was still changed after starting up again.
Any help in simple terms will be much appreciated - I'm spending too much time on this even though it isn't really important!
Many thanks.