shortcut to ~`

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John Hollister

I keep deleting the icon "shortcut to ~" and it keeps
reappearing. the file it leads to is located in
programfiles/commonfiles/system/1033.
A virus scan shows it not to be infected, but I don't
know what it is or what it does. Is it a valid windows
file? If not, does anyone know from where it originated?

Please email me if you have a clue.

Thanks
 
I have seen this when you change the address book in outlook express. If you
click on the ~ it will probably bring up the address book. You should be
able to delete it from your desktop but the next time you add someone in
your address it could reappear. I think it is a bug in outlook express.
 
Hi

The following is a posting from MVP Kelly Theriot:

****Hi

The "Mysterious Tilde File" usually appears just after you close OE but only
if you made any change to Address Book during this OE session...but not
always.

It's usually found on Desktop but on occasion appears at C:\ . Rename it
~.wab and you'll see it's an exact copy of Address Book. You can either
rename it or simply delete it.

It first appeared in November '02 with 331923/Cumulative Update for OE6-SP1
which was only available via manual download and with the more recent
330994/April '03 Cumulative Patch for OE, available via Windows Update.


--
All the Best,
Kelly

MS-MVP Win98/XP****

Will
 
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