cant erease icon on desktop

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this is driving me nuts

I got rid of AOL...and got COX high speed internet...I uninstalled AOL and deleting everyhting to do with AOL on my computer....for some reason I cant get rid of the AOL icon on my desktop...It's not a shortcut and when I right click it, the only options I have are "Open"...."Explore"...."Create shortcut"...Im running XP hom

Thanks in advance!!!
 
Hello
Try dragging it to your trash can.
Look in Add & Remove Programs for AOL related programs.

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Haus
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dragging doesn't work and everything AOL is uninstalled.....I still cant get the icon off my deskto

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Hell
Try dragging it to your trash can
Look in Add & Remove Programs for AOL related programs

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Hope This Help
Hau
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Not a MV
Not nothing, just a good ole boy
 
Hello Again
OK lets try this then
1.. Go to Start/Control Panel and double-click the Display icon.

2.. Click on the Desktop tab and hit the Customize Desktop button

3.. Under Desktop Cleanup, click on Clean Desktop now.

4.. The Desktop Cleanup Wizard pops up. It'll display a list of desktop
icons you haven't used in awhile. Follow the instructions to delete the
desired icons.

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Hope This Helps
Haus
Not a MS-MVP
Not a MVP
Not nothing, just a good ole boy.
 
I had similar problems with Cox branding my internet
explorer browser and an aol icon that I couldnt delete.
I looked on the aol support page and it was actually
something to do with the registry. So what I did is went
into regedit and deleted all the files with a search for
cox and aol. Now everything is fine? Hope it helps ?!

Rob Racki
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dragging doesn't work and everything AOL is
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uninstalled.....I still cant get the icon off my desktop
 
Hi,

Go to Start/Run/Regedit, navigate to this key and delete the icon entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

Check points to ensure that remnants have been removed:

Troubleshooting, Removing and/or Cleaning Add or Remove Programs
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_a.htm#addremove
 
thanks everybody for the advice...I really appreciate the help...I got the problem fixed by the last post

thank you very much fellow window users

Shauny
 
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