kruptof

I normally have my desktop icons hidden and use various programs for fast access to shortcuts or programs. I accidentally hit CTRL+f (don't asky how, was reading a book and next all I know I was CTRL + effing) and the IE Find box popped out. I played around with this and the box only pops up when the desktop icons are set to not to show and no IE processes are running when the box pops up (and it's not even inside svchost) . So the questions why and what's the point of only making it available when there are no desktop icons.

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Sane

Woah, I just tried it. That's funky. I wonder what that's all about.

It doesn't seem to be searching through anything either. Searching for "a", "b", or "c" came up with no results. Searching for a space " " found something, but there's no indication of where it was found, or any useful information.

kruptof

Out of all the letters who guessed a space (I know, the page might contain just a space). The important question would be what page is being searched. If the page is common on all installations then this might prove to be interesting.

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Ooble

I'm guessing the reason would be because to turn No Desktop Icons on in Windows XP and below, Active Desktop must be turned on. Active Desktop is basically small, resizable IE windows on your desktop, and you seem to have found a small bug in it. Vista doesn't use Active Desktop to do this.

As an aside, as Active Desktop is such a resource hog, if all you want to do is hide desktop icons, I'd advise deleting all of them and using Tweak UI to disable the Recycle Bin icon and others you can't instead.

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