Deleting Unwanted Microsoft Banner/icon?
Jun 29, 2005
My hard drive crashed recently and since it has been renewed and Windows XP reinstalled, there is a small icon (I'm told it's a Microsoft icon) appearing
on EVERY screen which I am unable to delete. I will try to describe it, but can send a screen dump if required. In its compact view it consists of:a very narrow grey horizontal banner with whitish dots in the central section 4 rectangles (2 green, one red and one "yellow" ).It's about 2.00cm wide x 1.5 cm. high
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Feb 1, 2008
I don't use Microsoft Outlook and would like to delete the icon from my XP desktop but when I click delete I get the following message: Confirm Delete--Are you sure you want to delete the Microsoft Outlook icon from your desktop? The Outlook Desktop icon provides special functionality and we recomment that you do not remove it.
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Sep 6, 2005
For some reason, an Microsoft Outlook icon has appeared on my Desktop.I don't want it there because I don't use it. (I use Outlook Express 6.0). But I hesitate to delete it as it doesn't appear to be a shortcut, but the program itself.How can I move this to where it belongs, i.e. somewhere in Program Files?
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Jun 7, 2006
I've downloaded Ccleaner and would like to know if ALL the issues in the Applications are completely safe to delete. Some of them I'm not sure about. I'm running Windows XP Pro, but a Pro I'm not!
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Dec 27, 2007
I finally need to update to Vista. My PC still works well, it's just been having some problems lately. Anyway, The reason for this thread is because something bizarre happened. I had just sent 2 or 3 files to the Recycle Bin. Then I right-clicked it and hit "Empty Recycle Bin". It deleted the files; that's all well and fine. Then I noticed, that after I deleted them, the icon had paper in the bin like there were files in it. So I opened it and saw nothing. I closed that and saw the icon still said there were files in it. So I right-clicked, hit "Empty Recycle Bin", then saw the same old "Are you sure you want to delete (insert file)?" message. Instinctively, I hit "Yes" and started reading what file it was while clicking it. BAM. The file was I thought for sure my PC was screwed for good. But I checked in "HP_PAVILION C" and it was still there, I looked again at the "Recycle Bin" and everything was fine.
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When I downloaded the updated drivers for my hp scanner software, an icon appeared on my desktop and if I right click it to delete it my computer freezes. If I drag it to the recycle bin or any other folder it just duplicates it and it is still on the desktop. I can't find anywhere else where I could delete it from the registry for example or add/delete programs list. I can't rename it , to try to delete it, because of the freezing issue. I will never use it so It bothers me that its there.
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Aug 21, 2005
I would like to free-up some hard disk space. I noted a slew of folders in the windows directory which are blue and have names such as
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Aug 19, 2005
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Aug 31, 2005
gets the following error message when she tries to open Outlook Express: Error Deleting File or Folder Cannot delete ntuser.dat: It is being used by another person or program Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.
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Feb 23, 2007
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/0 [...] index.html
Quote :NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp. infringed audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, the No. 1 software maker said Thursday.
Microsoft said it plans to first ask the trial judge to knock down the ruling and will appeal if necessary. It said the verdict is unsupported by the law and that it had already licensed the technology in question from Germany's Fraunhofer.
Alcatel-Lucent had accused the world's biggest software maker of infringing patents related to standards used for playing MP3 digital music files.
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