- Control Panel icons
- Posted by BadHead on November 4th, 2005
How do you remove an icon from the Control Panel. I have two Windows Media
Connect icons there and I want to remove one of them. Thanks.
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- Posted by Rich Barry on November 4th, 2005
Try going to Start>Run type: regedit Navigate to
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr ent
Version\Explorer\Control Panel\Namespace. Expand and check for two
instances of WMC. If there, delete one.
"BadHead" <jon@thepitz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> How do you remove an icon from the Control Panel. I have two Windows Media
> Connect icons there and I want to remove one of them. Thanks.
>
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> BadHead
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>
> OS: Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit)
> PSU: Tagan 2 Force TG530-U22 530W
> MoBo: Abit AN8 Fatal1ty
> CPU: AMD64 3200 (Venice Core)
> RAM: 2048Mb 400Ghz Patriot XBLK (4X512MB)
> GPU: NVIDIA 6800 (Driver Version 78.01)
> Sound: Creative Audigy X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
> Disks: 2X Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200Gb
> Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (with InfoPath) SP1
>
>
- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on November 5th, 2005
The icons can be from .CPL files in Windows\System32 folder or any other
folders. Here is a guide that helps you remove the unwanted icons from
Control Panel.
How to remove an invalid icon in the Control Panel?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/cpicon.htm
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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
"BadHead" <jon@thepitz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> How do you remove an icon from the Control Panel. I have two Windows Media
> Connect icons there and I want to remove one of them. Thanks.
>
> --
> BadHead
> ---
>
> OS: Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit)
> PSU: Tagan 2 Force TG530-U22 530W
> MoBo: Abit AN8 Fatal1ty
> CPU: AMD64 3200 (Venice Core)
> RAM: 2048Mb 400Ghz Patriot XBLK (4X512MB)
> GPU: NVIDIA 6800 (Driver Version 78.01)
> Sound: Creative Audigy X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
> Disks: 2X Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200Gb
> Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (with InfoPath) SP1
>
>
