With lovely, sunny weather outside and the computer running smoothly inside, I thought I might as well delete HiJackThis from my desktop. But when it objected, informing me that it is a program and I wouldn’t be able to run the program or edit some documents, I thought I’d better ask advice — what documents does one need to edit with HiJackThis? Unless I know that, I don’t know if I need to keep this — ???
The warning is normal.
The best way to remove HJT, is to open it, click the misc tools button, slide the slider down and click uninstall. You will still have to delete hijackthis.exe
There is little overhead in leaving it installed, it doesn’t take up much space and it useses no resources unless you run it.
So it is there in case you need it, you don’t have to download it again.
OK, thanks, Old Man. By the way, have you ever considered changing your forum name? I feel so tired when I read it, and I’ll bet you’re as young as most of us!!!
And I think I will leave it, like you suggested, David — why not? 8) I have lots of desk room!!! Thank you for the suggestion; I didn’t know if anybody left HiJackThis on their desktop and I didn’t want to be the only one! 
Then I won’t know who I was. :
I have a shortcut to HJT on my desktop, so you won’t be alone. Unlike other tools HJT isn’t updated that often.
I have my shortcut to HJT in a Toolbar for various shortcuts to live. There are no icons visible on my desktop (There are some there, but all are hidden). I also use RocketDock as a means of quick launch of applications, folders or files in regular use.
Since I have a desktop wallpaper that I really like, I will probably be a follower, David, and use the desktop toolbar;I had never noticed that option before, and had never even looked into the Hide Icon feature. I have to see how many clicks are required to do these things, but the results is striking — a beautiful picture on the screen! Thank you for mentioning this!
Create a folder on your Hard Disk, called Shortcuts and have a sub folder called ~ (the Tilda symbol) or - (dash) the only reason for this is not having a large folder name which would appear on the Task Bar.
Copy your shortcuts into this sub folder, only the most common ones so it doesn’t get to unwieldy, if need be you can use the other symbol as a sub folder.
- Right click on a clear part of the Task Bar and select Toolbars (see image 1), that will show your existing toolbars and give the option for a New Toolbar.
- When you click the New Toolbar you get a tree folder structure, navigate to your shortcuts sub folder and OK it.
- Now you will have a new toolbar, ensure you check it so it is displayed (first step of above).
For me it takes one click to access the application and one to launch it. You click the double chevron next to the toolbar name (see image 2) a menu list of your shortcuts is displayed, click the application you want to launch.
Wow, David, I wasn’t going to ask you to take the time to do a tutorial, but that will be extremely helpful — I appreciate it so much! I do notice you have a typo where it should read “Tilde” – ;). I will designate some time tomorrow to this project, a fun one!
Your welcome, I must have been thinking of rice as I was typing, tilda is a brand of rice ;D
I must have been thinking of rice as I was typing, tilda is a brand of rice[b]I didn't know that, but it was also my mother-in-law's name :D[/b]