1st puzzlement:

I have purchased and successfully installed and activated Windows Vista Ultimate. When I "right click">drag>"create shortcut here" from a file my shortcuts have a suffix added: " - shortcut" :

This happened with a previous install of Vista as well so I thought it was normal behavior, like the "Shortcut to" prefix in XP. I've been searching all day for a solution but I'm not even sure this is default behavior as I can find no references to this happening.

Is this normal? Does anyone know how I can kill the suffix from occuring?

2nd puzzlement:

I have set up 4 user accounts for my family. All the icons on their desktops look normal until I hover over them, at which point a checkbox appears on the icon overlay. The box becomes checked when I actually click on the icon:

This seems weird and wacky. Is it also normal? Is anyone else experiencing this and does anyone know if this can be changed?

3rd puzzlement:

I would love to put a "Switch User" icon on my desktop so that I can stay logged in but leave my pc at the logon screen for the next user. I have found instructions and created a "lock user" shortcut but that doesn't allow other users to log in. Helpeth me please!

I've been Googling all day on these three quandaries without any result. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance!

your 2nd puzzlement problem....

goto your folder options click on the view tab...scroll all the way down...and uncheck "Use check boxes to select items"