My family had the bad habit of saving everything to the desktop of our computer, so icons quickly filled every available space.
One evening I decided to clean up the desktop and began to delete some of my old files. But after I sent them to the recycle bin, the icons were still there. I clicked on the icons, but they wouldn’t open. Thinking my computer was frozen, I restarted it. It didn’t help.
My husband tried clicking and dragging files, and they began to pile up, one on top of another. We pored over the “Help” files and troubleshooting guides but couldn’t find anything about double icons and a frozen desktop. Finally, after midnight, we called it quits and went to bed, thinking it might be a computer virus.
At breakfast the next morning, my son Dan asked, in all innocence, “Did you see our new [computer] wallpaper? It’s a photo of the desktop! Like a picture within a picture!”
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