IE Icon on Desktop (5.01)

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Following the information in WOW Vol. 6 No. 41 about updating IE in order to patch Outlook , I did so. However, one of the unintended consequences is that there is now an IE icon on my desktop. It appears that this is NOT a shortcut as I can’t delete it by dragging it and dropping it in the Recycle Bin. Also, when I attempt to move it to a folder, I get the message that I cannot move it and am asked whether I want to create a shortcut.

How can I get rid of this? I resent the arrogance of Microsoft in “forcing” onto MY desktop an icon that I don’t want. I already have a shortcut to IE, and it is where I want it.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

David Luery

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Tools | Internet Options | Advanced
and de-select “Show icon on desktop”

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Leif,

Thank you so very much.

Cheers,

David

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Alternate method sit a four year old down with nothing on the desktop but the IE icon and the pointer for the mouse. What he did I do not know but the icon disappeared and IE still works from the menu.

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…try a 2yr old wanting to play with ‘mousey’ –
my grandson ‘played’ with his dad’s mousey, and fixed icon that 7 people couldn’t fix!
….I was told about it over the phone…I ended up wiping tears

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