During beta testing of the new RPLS board (for all the good that did) I made a shortcut to it on my office computer. That worked fine and still does even though it still says beta.rpls or whatever. At home, though, on the computer I'm sitting at now, I tried to do the same thing by right-clicking while I was on the site. I didn't get the same options that included "create a shortcut" but there was an option that sounded kind of similar so I clicked it. Bad mistake. Ever since then, two or three months, I have a version of rpls running constantly on my desktop. I managed to shove it up in the corner with the little double arrows but it's there and no telling what that is doing to my already overworked old computer. I wish I could remember the name of the command I used to make that happen but I can't. As a by-product of that mistake, all my shortcut icons on the desktop now look like they're highlighted with the dark blue background. There's no "x" at the top of the rpls site to exit the thing. I mentioned this at the time on the beta site and nobody had a clue what I was talking about, so don't feel bad if you don't either.
Click on the window and Alt-F4 should close it.
Alt-space to pop up a menu, use your arrow keys to pick "move" and then move it back to somewhere normal.
Sorry, Gunter, but simple as that sounds, you lost me. Maybe I wasn't clear in my post. It's not a shortcut icon, it's the site itself. I don't have to click it to open it or anything. It's just there, running constantly. I hit Alt F4 and the shutdown thingy came up and Beer Leg shut down but no affect on rpls. About the Alt Space suggestion, move what to where? I apologize for my density.
Have you tried right-clicking on it somewhere? Maybe you'll get an option to remove it (long shot, I know).
Tried that, no such option. There was Select All, I did that but about all I could have done with it was copy it. That's all I need is two of them.
Can you see it (and stop it) in the Task Manager? (ctrl-alt-del)
buy a new computer?
I'm sorry that is an unhelpful smart-assed comment.
When I can't figure how to get rid of something, I use the "restore" program to return the computer to a time before I added the program. Have you looked for a program under the add/remove programs or under the folder that holds the automatically started program?
Sounds like you have a browser running mostly off screen.
First, click on the piece of the browser that you can see, then try the keyboard shortcuts.
I wonder if it is a desktop image.
right click on the desktop, choose properties, go to the desktop tab then customize. See if any of those boxes are checked.
You can make your desktop display a web page.
the other thing to try is hover your mouse near the top of the thing and see if a bar appears with an x on the right.
Dave
That sounded really promising, but I did all that and there were no boxes checked. But I think you're on the right track. I've got a web page running as background almost, except I can grab the edges of it and shove it up into a corner.
Gunter - I'm apparently not even smart enough to understand your advice. Click a piece of the browser? Then try the keyboard shortcuts? You lost me, sorry.
Steve
and rebooting doesn't close it?
Steve
Nope.
Steve
Who was that poster on the RPLS board who always had computer problems...the subject line in his posts always began something like "@#%$&^&* computer..." ... Anyway, did you loan your PC to him??? 😉
Seriously, I tried recreating your issue on mine earlier this evening, and couldn't do it...
Did you try opening Task Manager with the CTRL-ALT-DEL function? Does it show anything running under "Applications" or "Processes"?
What version of Windows and Explorer are you running?
Steve, try this.........
I have Windows 7 on my laptop and XP on my PC. I just recreated it on the XP
1. Go to your desktop and right click anywhere
2. Click on "Properties"
3. Click the "Desktop" tab at the top, then click the "Customize Desktop" button in the lower left
4. On the next window, click the "Web" tab
5. The web site that is running should appear in a window. Check the open box next to the running site. Then to the right is 4 buttons: "New" "Delete" "Properties" "Synchronize".
6. Click "Delete"
7. Close
Steve
It doesn't really seem to cause me any problems that I know of. It's just weird how it's up there in the corner running all the time. I've done CTR/ALT/DEL a bunch of times since it showed up and there's nothing in applications or processes that looks anything like it. That processes list is sure a big list. I don't know what it does, but it's interesting to know it's there. I'm on Windows XP and to tell you the honest truth, I can't figure out how to get IE to tell me what version it is.
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It's gone! Yay! It took me a couple of tries because I tried it just highlighting and deleting, then unclicking, highlighting and deleting, restarting and it was still there. Finally, I hit the winning combination, whatever it was and it's now history. I kind of miss it now, just kidding! Do you remember what the command was that made it do that? Something to do with synchronizing?
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Please...no applause....just throw money 😉
If you use the same procedure through step 5, and click "New", you can setup a web page to be the background.
I knew I had seen it before, but I couldn't recreate on my laptop (Windows 7) so I tried it on the PC (Windows XP) and there it was.
Regarding your version of Explorer...with Explorer open, click the "Help" button, then click "About Internet Explorer". A window will appear with the version and other data.
oops
I forgot to say click the web tab at the top.
I was learning how to do it as I went and forgot I picked that tab.
Dave
That's OK, Dave. You're smart too.
