On 12.01.2011, at 02:14, Brian Ferguson wrote: > > May I recommend you consider most carefully the purchase of Disk Warrior? I feel that is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The computer is actually running fine, Im just having this issue with the desktop icons once or twice a week. I use DIM 2.0.1 to memorize Icon positions so I can restore Icon positions again with only one click when this happens. > > After looking at the list of your third-party applications, therein lies a serious problem, in my opinion. Even though I've only heard of one of them, they just look suspicious. Not really, they are all great programs that I can wholeheartedly recommend. > > While you are in a spending mode, have a look at 'Amnesia'; excellent remover of unwanted stuff. First I must know then WHAT to delete. :-) I use AppCleaner and Find Any File when deleting unwanted stuff. Žorvaršur Davķšsson OS X 10.6.5 MacBook Pro 17