unremoveable desktop icon!

[Dana]

i have made a shortcut of the control panel to place on my
desktop but,icon does not load control panel,left click
says cannot create shortcut here,right clicking just asks
to create another shortcut,i've tried to delete this icon
every way i know how to no avail,any ideas on how to
delete this icon would be great! thanx in advance for any
help i can get

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Dana,

How did you create that icon? Dragged Control Panel to the Desktop and created a shortcut? or thru some other means.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


i have made a shortcut of the control panel to place on my
desktop but,icon does not load control panel,left click
says cannot create shortcut here,right clicking just asks
to create another shortcut,i've tried to delete this icon
every way i know how to no avail,any ideas on how to
delete this icon would be great! thanx in advance for any
help i can get

 

[BILLY]

i have made a shortcut of the control panel to place on my
desktop but,icon does not load control panel,left click
says cannot create shortcut here,right clicking just asks
to create another shortcut,i've tried to delete this icon
every way i know how to no avail,any ideas on how to
delete this icon would be great! thanx in advance for any
help i can get

I believe it is in the registry, so it can't be removed by just
deleting. I think tweakui allows you to remove some icons like that

Billy, N5WE
Mississippi