jocky1951

Hi Ken B Many thanks for your suggestion I reduced the number from 4 to2 and that got rid of most of them. . However I still have 11 uninvited items left. For example wallpaperviewswithatag taskbariconincreaseundo helpandsupportrename undo When I try to delete these ones I am told " cannot delete the file-cannot read from the soruce file or disk". In their properties theyb are classified as "file " with 0 bytes. I would be really nice to get rid of these ones as well as .

unfortunately as i drag the icons into the folder copies of the appear on tjhe desktop

H Randyl, thanks for your reply . I have removed AVG .However when I have been deleting the icons they then reappear elsewhere on the screen as copies eg restoreproperties is now appearring as Copy of restoreproperties

Hi , Windows XP PROFESSIONAL , DELL INSPIRON 8200 I recently had the Proplus.msi problem , which stopped MS Windows XP Professional FrontPage and prevented me opening EXCEL. I had no MICROSOFT CD so I used Office XP Error 1706 - ProPlus.Msi Fix (Line 171) from kellys-korner-xp.com . It solved the problem as I can access and use excel. Everything else seems to be working normally However since the fix I now have my desktop covered with about 80 uninvited icons . I can delete some of them to the recylce bin However the next time i start up they appear again .About half of them do not delete at all. (There is no problem with other any icons I have voluntarily added myself .I can delete them and they disappear permanently Some examples of the uninvited icons startmenusubfolders(a VBScript Script File) taskbariconsincreaseundo ( shows as a firefox icon) webscr ( shows as a firefox icon) winhelp32 Copy of vps(firefox document) SPBlockerTools (Win32 Cabinet Self-Extractor, appication file) StartupTracker3 (Compressed (zipped) Folder) xp_c.htm#cleanup (HTM#CLEANUP File) sortordermenu ( Registration Entries File) etc etc In their Properties they all report they were created on 3 april 2011 , the date I put in the Proplus fix. For security IEI have Microsoft Security Essentials and AVG and neither have reported a problem Any advice regarding how I can get these icons from off my desk top? is there an underlying problem ? Any advice grarefully received . Many thanks Jocky1951

Hi , Windows XP PROFESSIONAL , DELL INSPIRON 8200 I recently had the Proplus.msi problem , which stopped MS Windows XP Professional FrontPage and prevented me opening EXCEL. I had no MICROSOFT CD so I used Office XP Error 1706 - ProPlus.Msi Fix (Line 171) from kellys-korner-xp.com . It solved the problem as I can access and use excel. Everything else seems to be working normally However since the fix I now have my desktop covered with about 80 uninvited icons . I can delete some of them to the recylce bin However the next time i start up they appear again .About half of them do not delete at all Some icon examples startmenusubfolders(a VBScript Script File) taskbariconsincreaseundo ( shows as a firefox icon) webscr ( shows as a firefox icon) winhelp32 Copy of vps(firefox document) SPBlockerTools (Win32 Cabinet Self-Extractor, appication file) StartupTracker3 (Compressed (zipped) Folder) www.bitmart.net (NET File) etc etc xp_c.htm#cleanup (HTM#CLEANUP File) sortordermenu ( Registration Entries File) www.envisionwebhosting.co (CO File) etc etc In their Properties they all report they were created on 3 april 2011 , the date I put in the Proplus fix. For security IEI have Microsoft Security Essentials and AVG and neither have reported a problem Any advice regarding how I can get theseicons from off my desk top? is there an underlying problem ? Any advice grarefully received . Many thanks Jocky1951