Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Article by George Norman
On 04 Sep 2009
I don’t know about you, but I run a very organized desktop. All the applications I run on a day-to-day basis are neatly packed in the taskbar, or I have already set them up to launch automatically at system startup. I rarely if ever store anything on the desktop, and I rarely check the Place a shortcut on my desktop option when I install a new piece of software. All these things amount to one fact: the Desktop Cleanup Wizard utility is useless. Even if I did have a lot of icons and items on the desktop, I don’t think I would allow the Desktop Cleanup Wizard to delete anything from the desktop just because it believes I am not using it. I’ll decide when I no longer need that icon there and I will delete it myself when I do.

Here’s what you have to do to disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard in Windows XP:

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Step 1. Minimize all open windows and all running apps.

Step 2. On the Windows desktop, right click an empty space -> in the dropdown menu select Properties. Alternatively you could follow this path: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Display (in Classic View). In Category View you have to click Appearance and Themes -> Display.

Step 3. You should now be looking at the Display Properties window. Locate and click the Desktop tab -> click on Customize Desktop (at the bottom of the window).

Step 4. The Desktop Items window should have popped up. In the Desktop cleanup section at the bottom you will see that Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days is enabled by default. Uncheck the box next to it.

Step 5. Click Ok to close the Desktop Items window.

Step 6. Click Apply -> then Click OK in the Display Properties window and you are done.



Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP, DEsktop Cleanup Wizard
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