erm.. Fractal, he was asking how to get rid of them or change the icon... getting rid of them is easy if you just delete the icon show line.

If I followed my homework right, to show drives like that, you have to put them into a box, so he should also remove the boxes from the desktop...

I think youre making it too complicated...

Once trillian is loaded, however, Fractal is right - the icon should show normally. I cant imagine changing the icon used would be very difficult - if anything, (as long as it's not the drive icons) he could go back into the explorer shell, right click and change icon, and voila - changed icon.