Control Panel icons

BadHead · Nov 4, 2005

How do you remove an icon from the Control Panel. I have two Windows Media
Connect icons there and I want to remove one of them. Thanks.

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BadHead

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OS: Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit)
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Rich Barry · Nov 4, 2005

Try going to Start>Run type: regedit Navigate to
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\Explorer\Control Panel\Namespace. Expand and check for two
instances of WMC. If there, delete one.

Ramesh, MS-MVP · Nov 5, 2005

The icons can be from .CPL files in Windows\System32 folder or any other
folders. Here is a guide that helps you remove the unwanted icons from
Control Panel.

How to remove an invalid icon in the Control Panel?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/cpicon.htm

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Control Panel icons

BadHead

Rich Barry

Ramesh, MS-MVP