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Windows XP/2000 - [Resolved]Annoying desktop icon! posted in the Operating Systems forums; Originally Posted by norris7850 ok ive got as far as the last instruction however then i got a bit stuck? Open the resulting .reg file with notepad and paste the ...


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Old 05-21-2007   #29
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Originally Posted by norris7850
ok ive got as far as the last instruction however then i got a bit stuck?

Open the resulting .reg file with notepad and paste the results in a post???????

i exported and saved the file as "namespace" to my documents then didnt know what you meant by "the resulting .reg file?

Sorry !!
Open the file you saved in notepad and just copy and paste it here, sorry if the instructions were a little confusing
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how about trying top clean the desktop?

Right click your desktop..CLick properties..Click Desktop..Then clcik customize..then lcick clean up uuesed icons and clean that sucker off of there.



Edit. Wow I cannot spell today (or any other day for that matter)
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right ok lebowski here is what happened i saved the file to my documents then i right clicked it and clicked open with notepad and it came up with this
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

Merlin- i have just tried to clean up however when you click "clean now" it takes you through a few steps that you can select the icons you want to clean and.......thats right you guessed it i cant select that icon from the list!!
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Originally Posted by norris7850
right ok lebowski here is what happened i saved the file to my documents then i right clicked it and clicked open with notepad and it came up with this
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

Merlin- i have just tried to clean up however when you click "clean now" it takes you through a few steps that you can select the icons you want to clean and.......thats right you guessed it i cant select that icon from the list!!
This is strange, can you expand namespace and take a screenshot? (Tip: If you press alt + printscrn it will take a screenshot of the current window only)
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ok here you go havent got a clue what all this means

I was debating at first whether to post this thread or not because i thought someone would say it was dead easy!!lol

kinda scary stuff though all this registry melarky??!

neway hope this helps

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This is certainly confusing it's not even in registry, maybe I'm missing something (fairly likely)

I want to see if the other techs can come up with something, either that or I have one more solution but its a little, I dunno 'brute force'
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ok give me what you got!!!! lol
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