I have two Control Panel icons on my desktop that are not shortcuts. When I delete them they just reappear. tried the the .reg file to no avail. Also have the Network icon.(same problem). I think this could have happened when I changed my network from Public to Home.Any help would be appreciated.
Hello Jakedog,
If you haven't already, you might check the tutorial below to see if it may help to remove them.
Desktop Icons - Add or Remove
Hope this helps,
Shawn
In change Desktop icons box I have Network(did not work) listed but no Control Panel. Tried the .reg files they did not work either.
As a test, open Windows Explorer, click on Desktop under Favorites in the navigation pane, then delete them here to see if they stay gone from your desktop afterwards. It will not remove them from this Desktop location though, only on your actual deskop hopefully.
If not, then you might see if you may be able to use the free program Unlocker to remove them from your desktop.
Unlocker did not work. Don't know really what to do now.
That did not work either Brink. Wish I knew the registry well,Has to be some keys to delete.
Go ahead and use the Find and Find Next feature in regedit to search for {5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}. Next, post screenshots of each location found showing all of it to see if we may be able to find the culprit.
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