Windows 7 question

[Ray]

Has anyone using Win 7 noticed that the Desktop cleanup wizard that used to be in XP for removing unwanted/unused shortcuts from the desktop seems to have been removed or well hidden away? At least I haven't managed to find it if it is still there.

[Glenn]

I can't say that I ever used it, apparently it's been removed http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/20159-desktop-cleanup-wizard.html

[Glenn]

But this says otherwise http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/2307/Disable-the-windows-desktop-cleanup

[Ray]

Thanks, Glenn, looks like it disapppeared in Vista then, I didn't use it very often just that I seemed to have acquired a lot of shortcuts on my desktop and tried to find it to get rid of them, I've now resorted to manually deleting them.

[Lance]

I never used it either!

[D-Dan]

It's the first thing I disabled on XP, and never noticed in Vista or Win 7.

I keep an almost completely clear desktop - limiting icons to my computer, my data drive and the trashcan, so it's never been of any use to me at all.

Steve

[Simon]

I never used that on XP, because I didn't want it deleting shortcuts I may later need to use.  I clean up my desktop manually, once in a while, or when I can't fit any more icons on it! 

[Rik]

I could never see the point of it, hold down CTRL, click around the desktop, hit delete. Much easier and under my control

[Inkblot]

Never used it either - I guess Microsoft decided it wasn't worth putting into Vista/Win7 as if this thread is anything to go by it wasn't popular

[Rik]

Very true.

[Ray]

Very rarely I've used it, Rik, I just wish when you install new programmes they didn't dump shortcuts on your desktop, without asking in most cases, they've got a much more useful option in Win 7 you can pin any applications that you want to use frequently to the Task Bar. 

[Rik]

I just open Explorer and dump the shortcuts where I want them in my start menu, but then I'm a Luddite and use classic menus.

[JB]

 

[Sebby]

The desktop cleanup wizard was a pretty useless function anyway, imho.

[LesD]

Never liked it in XP and always turned it off in the way it says here.

I can't remember being bugged by it in Vista (probably too many other things bugging me for me to notice) but this is most likely why.

I can't find anything about it in Vista SP3,  oops I mean Windows 7 but my guess is it has not returned since its demise in Vista proper.
Even the Windows 7 Help, including the on-line search doesn't come up with anything! 

No great loss though in my opinion.