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I have inadvertently created a window on my desktop which seems to be part of IE. The window is about 1.5″ square and I can’t get rid of it. It’s bland and white at present. If I fiddle round with it it becomes a window into the top half of the IE screen showing in turn the different junk that appears in the top half of a hotmail screen. I don’t know what I did but Ihave also found that a desktop link to Hotmail gives ‘page cannot be displayed’. Another shortcut works fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks in anticipation.
Mike T.

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Immediately perform full system scan with your Antivirus program (don’t forget to update virus definitions before scanning).

Update and perform system scan with anty-spyware program (Spybot, Lavasoft Ad-Aware). If you don’t have them, download and install them (they are free!).
Also I would highly recommend “system immunization” by SpyBot.

Check all suspicious programs installed (Start | Control Panel | Ad or Remove Programs) and remove all programs called “browser accelerator”, “search engine”, “explorer toolbar” and so on.

If it doesn’t help, unbrand Internet Explorer:
Start | Run, type

rundll32.exe iedkcs32.dll,Clear

and hit Enter (make sure you put a space after “exe” and no space after “dll,”).

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Thanks for yoiur time. Done everything you suggested but white square ignores the lot!
Mike

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You haven’t inadvertantly set a web page to be on your desktop?

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That sounds as though it might fit. However How do I tell? Also If it were a full web page it should be resizable. When I did have pictures and text on the white square I seemed to be able, with difficulty and a lot of fiddling, to get most of advertising garbage that fills the top half of a hotmail screen in turn on the white square.
Thanks for the suggestion
Mike.

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How do you tell?
Have you checked your desktop settings as per my attachment? Is anything selected as an web page?

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Brilliant. Well done, thank you very much.
Thanks to all others who emailed suggestions.
Mike

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I’ve seen this kind of thing caused by bugs in display device drivers.

Does the white square survive a reboot?
Is it always in the same place?

StuartR

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