I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image files 
straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I 
want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm sure 
there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which 
might take days).
Can anyone think of a solution?

Thanks!

richard flores wrote:
> I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image 
> files straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. 
> Now I want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. 
> I'm sure there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by 
> one which might take days).
> Can anyone think of a solution?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

1) Left click on the first pic icon so that it's highlighted.
2) Press down your shift key and hold it down
3) Left click on the last pic icon.  All your pic icons will now be 
highlighted.
4) Release the shift key.
5) Right click on one of the highlighted icons and choose cut
6) Navigate to the folder where you want to put the pics and open it.
7) Right click in the folder and choose paste.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

Hi,

While holding down the shift key, left click your mouse - draw cursor
over the desktop - (avoid things you don't want to delete e.g. recycle
bin etc. )

The area will be highlighted in blue - keep holding shift key ,release
left click (highlighting disappears), right click  select delete,
confirm when prompted,  - anything you had highlighted will be deleted
to recycle bin.


Hope this helps

SIW2


-- 
SIW2

Open your Computer, browse to Users\yourUserName\Desktop, sort by type, 
select the pictures, move them to a folder.

"richard flores"  wrote in message 
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> I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image files 
> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I 
> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm sure 
> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which 
> might take days).
> Can anyone think of a solution?
>
> Thanks!
>

richard flores wrote:
> I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image 
> files straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. 
> Now I want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. 
> I'm sure there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by 
> one which might take days).
> Can anyone think of a solution?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

One more:

Click on the Windows Icon in the taskbar (left side, bottom of screen), 
click your username (top, right hand column).  This opens your user 
account folder.  Open the Desktop folder, create a new folder (right 
click, select from context menu), rename it or not.  select one photo 
file, type Control-a (to select all), and grab one file and drag the 
entire bunch into the folder.  Move the folder to wherever you need it.

Q

"richard flores"  wrote in message 
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>I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image files
> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I
> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm sure
> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which
> might take days).
> Can anyone think of a solution?


At Command Prompt:

cd %userprofile%\desktop
md images
move *.jpg images
move *.jpeg images
move *.gif images
move *.png images
move *.bmp images
move *.tif images

The files will be moved into a folder called 'images' on the Desktop.

Or just double click on the attached batch file.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome"  wrote in message 
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> "richard flores"  wrote in message 
> news:r4ednd1tlK9GQlzVnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@earthlink.com...
>>I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image files
>> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I
>> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm 
>> sure
>> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which
>> might take days).
>> Can anyone think of a solution?
>
>
> At Command Prompt:
>
> cd %userprofile%\desktop
> md images
> move *.jpg images
> move *.jpeg images
> move *.gif images
> move *.png images
> move *.bmp images
> move *.tif images
>
> The files will be moved into a folder called 'images' on the Desktop.
>
> Or just double click on the attached batch file.
>
> ss.
Neat.
It is also a good idea to be able to restore your desktop icon layout using 
Microsoft's Layout.dll (free) file, which is included in the Windows NT 
Resource Kit and works fine with Vista (32bit anyway):
http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/385101001/ShowPost.aspx
This puts these options in the context menu of the Recycle Bin :
Save Desktop Icon Layout
Restore Desktop Icon Layout
By the way I have found that, with a crowded desktop, you may need to 
restore more than once as initially the icons "trip over each other".
Doug

"Doug"  wrote in message 
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>>>I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image 
>>>files
>>> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I
>>> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm 
>>> sure
>>> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which
>>> might take days).
>>> Can anyone think of a solution?
>>
>> At Command Prompt:
>>
>> cd %userprofile%\desktop
>> md images
>> move *.jpg images
>> move *.jpeg images
>> move *.gif images
>> move *.png images
>> move *.bmp images
>> move *.tif images
>>
>> The files will be moved into a folder called 'images' on the Desktop.
>>
>> Or just double click on the attached batch file.
>>
> Neat.
> It is also a good idea to be able to restore your desktop icon layout 
> using Microsoft's Layout.dll (free) file, which is included in the Windows 
> NT Resource Kit and works fine with Vista (32bit anyway):
> http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/385101001/ShowPost.aspx
> This puts these options in the context menu of the Recycle Bin :
> Save Desktop Icon Layout
> Restore Desktop Icon Layout
> By the way I have found that, with a crowded desktop, you may need to 
> restore more than once as initially the icons "trip over each other".


Hi Doug.

I found Layout.dll very useful for after I used Remote Desktop from my 
laptop, which has a small screen, to my desktop computer, which has high 
resolution monitors.  After I got home, the icons were all messed up, until 
I started using Layout.dll.

Anyway, a couple of years ago I found Desktop Restore, which works better. 
It can save the icon positions for different resolutions and even on 
multiple monitors.  Check it out.

http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

ss.

You should know better, SS, than to attach BAT, EXE, VBS files, etc., with 
the extension intact. Raises all kinds of alarms with many various AV 
systems, and may even get stripped by certain servers, not to mention many 
email clients with default settings. If you *must* attach a script of batch 
file, change the extension to TXT and instruct the recipient to change it to 
whatever it's supposed to be once it's been extracted.

Please? Thank you!

-- 
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Synapse Syndrome"  wrote in message 
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> "richard flores"  wrote in message 
> news:r4ednd1tlK9GQlzVnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@earthlink.com...
>>I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image files
>> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I
>> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm 
>> sure
>> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which
>> might take days).
>> Can anyone think of a solution?
>
>
> At Command Prompt:
>
> cd %userprofile%\desktop
> md images
> move *.jpg images
> move *.jpeg images
> move *.gif images
> move *.png images
> move *.bmp images
> move *.tif images
>
> The files will be moved into a folder called 'images' on the Desktop.
>
> Or just double click on the attached batch file.
>
> ss.
>
>

Apparently there was more than one solution for this. XP used to have a 
desktop cleaner, or something to that effect.

Regardless, thanks for the help.

Right-click the Desktop, left-click Properties, click Desktop tab, click 
Customize Desktop button at bottom, click Clean Desktop Now button at bottom 
right.

-- 
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"richard flores"  wrote in message 
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> Apparently there was more than one solution for this. XP used to have a 
> desktop cleaner, or something to that effect.
>
> Regardless, thanks for the help.

"Gary S. Terhune" <None> wrote in message 
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>>>I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image 
>>>files
>>> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now I
>>> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm
>>> sure
>>> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one which
>>> might take days).
>>> Can anyone think of a solution?
>>
>> At Command Prompt:
>>
>> cd %userprofile%\desktop
>> md images
>> move *.jpg images
>> move *.jpeg images
>> move *.gif images
>> move *.png images
>> move *.bmp images
>> move *.tif images
>>
>> The files will be moved into a folder called 'images' on the Desktop.
>>
>> Or just double click on the attached batch file.
>
> You should know better, SS, than to attach BAT, EXE, VBS files, etc., with
> the extension intact. Raises all kinds of alarms with many various AV
> systems, and may even get stripped by certain servers, not to mention many
> email clients with default settings. If you *must* attach a script of 
> batch
> file, change the extension to TXT and instruct the recipient to change it 
> to
> whatever it's supposed to be once it's been extracted.

Well, zipping the attachment would have been a better idea, and it even gets 
archived on Google Groups that way, IIRC.  I forgot about all that security 
nannying, as I use OE on XP.

> Please? Thank you!

Let's see.  The slightly revised contents:
----------------------------
cd %userprofile%\desktop
c:
md images
move *.jpg images
move *.jpeg images
move *.gif images
move *.png images
move *.bmp images
move *.tif images
----------------------------

ss.

Thank you, <s>!

-- 
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Synapse Syndrome"  wrote in message 
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> "Gary S. Terhune" <None> wrote in message 
> news:ei0WOvIEJHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>I was using a file recovery program and it recovered over 5000 image 
>>>>files
>>>> straight to my desktop. I thought I had put the files in a folder. Now 
>>>> I
>>>> want to clear my desktop but cannot find a way in Vista to do it. I'm
>>>> sure
>>>> there must be a way that I haven't tried (without going one by one 
>>>> which
>>>> might take days).
>>>> Can anyone think of a solution?
>>>
>>> At Command Prompt:
>>>
>>> cd %userprofile%\desktop
>>> md images
>>> move *.jpg images
>>> move *.jpeg images
>>> move *.gif images
>>> move *.png images
>>> move *.bmp images
>>> move *.tif images
>>>
>>> The files will be moved into a folder called 'images' on the Desktop.
>>>
>>> Or just double click on the attached batch file.
>>
>> You should know better, SS, than to attach BAT, EXE, VBS files, etc., 
>> with
>> the extension intact. Raises all kinds of alarms with many various AV
>> systems, and may even get stripped by certain servers, not to mention 
>> many
>> email clients with default settings. If you *must* attach a script of 
>> batch
>> file, change the extension to TXT and instruct the recipient to change it 
>> to
>> whatever it's supposed to be once it's been extracted.
>
> Well, zipping the attachment would have been a better idea, and it even 
> gets archived on Google Groups that way, IIRC.  I forgot about all that 
> security nannying, as I use OE on XP.
>
>> Please? Thank you!
>
> Let's see.  The slightly revised contents:
> ----------------------------
> cd %userprofile%\desktop
> c:
> md images
> move *.jpg images
> move *.jpeg images
> move *.gif images
> move *.png images
> move *.bmp images
> move *.tif images
> ----------------------------
>
> ss.
>
>