Anyone know how to solve this Word problem ?

[rita goldman]

Anyone know how to solve this Word problem ?

When I open a Word doc it leaves an icon on my desktop - permanently !.

I have a win 98 PC.

This is strange.

Any help is MOST WELCOME

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

It sounds like you're saving files to your desktop! In Word, choose Tools -
Options - File Locations, and see if Documents is set to your desktop. If it
is, then change it to something else (e.g., the My Documents folder, or some
folder of your own choosing).

Next, open Windows Explorer, and move the Word documents currently on your
desktop into your documents folder.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Is the 'icon' called ~$filename ? It sounds as though you have the desktop
set as the document location or the temp file location. Windows 98 is rather
poor when it comes to housekeeping and often forgets to delete its temporary
files, when you quit applications or Windows itself. Change the Windows temp
file location to c:\windows\temp or c:\temp and the documents location to a
documents folder. Ensure that any orphaned temp files are removed from time
to time. It's been a long time since I used Win98, but I seem to recall that
you set the temp location from the auutoexec.bat file - I would check with a
Windows 98 newsgroup.

You can safely temporary files when the application that creates them is
closed. The best time to do so is immediately after switching the PC on.

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[rita goldman]

I checked Word. The location is My Documents.
It do not see the word " desktop". So I guess the location is fine.

Any other help ?

BTW I am sorry My PC is a win ME ( My daughters is a Win98)

Thanks
Rita

 

[rita goldman]

No the file name is not called ~$filename

I checked Word. The location is My Documents.
It do not see the word " desktop" in the location section. So I guess
the location is fine.

Any other help ?

BTW I am sorry My PC is a win ME ( My daughters is a Win98)

PS I am NOT technical...so with any help, pls. understand i am
ignorant in technical matters.

Thanks
Rita

 

[Graham Mayor]

If settings in tools > options are not behaving then this is usually
indication of a minor registry corruption - check out
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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