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HOw to stop IE appearing on desktop
Name: MrBedo Date: February 2, 2006 at 09:01:27 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: P4 2gb
Comment:
How can I prevent IE from constatly placing a shortcut on my desktop ?
If I delete it it comes back almost immediatley and is really, really getting on my nerves !!
Name: Tufenuf Date: February 2, 2006 at 09:13:27 Pacific
Reply:
MrBedo, Right click your Desktop, choose Properties, under the Desktop tab click the Customize Desktop button then under the General tab uncheck Internet Explorer. click OK/Apply/OK.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 4
Name: MrBedo Date: February 3, 2006 at 04:29:50 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the replies, but none of them work I'm afraid.
Tufenuf - I already have those settings unticked, and although I cannot see the icons on the desktop, if I view the desktop through Explorer then IE is still there.
Chuck - The desktop clean up wizard doesn't permenantly remove the IE icon unfortunately, it still reappears after being removed. As much as I like your idea about removing IE completely I'm afraid I cannot do this because I need to use both firefox and IE for my job.
Any other suggestions ?
thanks again
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Response Number 5
Name: Tufenuf Date: February 3, 2006 at 05:02:09 Pacific
Reply:
MrBedo, Open Windows Explorer and check out C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Desktop C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop
If you find any Internet shortcuts in those Desktop folders right click them and delete them.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 6
Name: MrBedo Date: February 6, 2006 at 06:18:32 Pacific
Reply:
Nope, didn't find any there at all.
I should probably mention that I'm a sys admin and so know my way around a computer pretty well.
I'm guessing a reg edit's needed to fix this annoying 'bug' !!
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