Never mind folks, I jumped the gun a bit I guess. After a bit of poking around I discovered in finder/preferences if I uncheck show cdrom drives (go figure) the thunderbird/hd icon dissapears and my desktop is nice and tidy again. - Gary
Hello all, I've been a semi-regular on the Linux forum for a while now, but I just bought my first Mac, (the Imac 1.85 dual core), and I'm having problems figuring this out. I downloaded Thunderbird, accepted the license agreement, drug what looked like a hard drive with the Thunderbird icon on it to the hard drive, then I drug that same icon to the trash, and the regular icon to the dock. Now everytime I open Thunderbird, (it does open and launch just fine), The Thunderbird-hard drive icon re-appears on the desktop. The question is, is the icon supposed to be there? Is there a way to hide it? I kinda like an uncluttered desktop. Thanks - Gary

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