New to Macs...Please Help!

[*******]

Hello to one and all

Recently made the switch from WinDoze and PC's to a 14" iBook - and Im loving every minute of it!

HOWEVER...installed a piece of software called sterMachine, a disk and cashe utility prog.

On install, several icons appeared on the desktop that i cant get rid of - my file vault and a file called .DS_Store, which i cant delete coz its "invisible". this is very annoying - does anyone have any ideas/solutions?

I would really appreciate any help you guys can offer to this self confessed novice!
Many thanks

 

[broken_keyboard]

Those files are supposed to be there, but they're not supposed to be visible. Have a look in the settings for sterMachine and see if there is anything about "show invisible files" or "show system files" and disable it.

 

[titaniumducky]

Hello to one and all

Recently made the switch from WinDoze and PC's to a 14" iBook - and Im loving every minute of it!

HOWEVER...installed a piece of software called sterMachine, a disk and cashe utility prog.

On install, several icons appeared on the desktop that i cant get rid of - my file vault and a file called .DS_Store, which i cant delete coz its "invisible". this is very annoying - does anyone have any ideas/solutions?

I would really appreciate any help you guys can offer to this self confessed novice!
Many thanks

Yeah, those files are normally invisible. Look in sterMachine for the option to disable viewing of hidden files

OR

Open Terminal in your /Applications/Utilities folder. Type

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles '0'

to turn off hidden files then type

killall Finder

to restart the finder.