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David Chamberlain
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      15th May 2009
I have a strange error that keeps happening. I have control panel desktop
icon disabled but the icon keeps reappearing on my desktop and now has 2
copies of it reappearing. I remember seeing something about how to fix this
once before but searches have failed to find a solution



 
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David Chamberlain
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      16th May 2009
Well actually I discovered that its not even getting put on the desktop. Its
just displaying on the taskbar as I have desktop as one of the taskbars open
on taskbar



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> Hello David,
>
> You might double check to make sure that the Control Panel is unchecked
> in "Desktop Icon Settings" to see if that may be it. Toggling it on and
> off may reset it to not show as well.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/83...top-icons.html
>
>
> If not, then also see if there may be a Control Panel shortcut in
> either the "C:\Users\User-Name\Desktop" or hidden
> "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" locations.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> David Chamberlain;1044040 Wrote:
>> I have a strange error that keeps happening. I have control panel
>> desktop
>> icon disabled but the icon keeps reappearing on my desktop and now has
>> 2
>> copies of it reappearing. I remember seeing something about how to fix
>> this
>> once before but searches have failed to find a solution

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