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Guest LuDean Marvin
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I have four "NetWork Setup Wizard" icons in my Control panel. Does

anyone have any idea how the three duplicates got there or how I might

get rid of them? Thanks to any suggestions!

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Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP
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Re: duplicate icons in Control Panel

 

Look for duplicate copies of "netsetup.cpl" (with different names, of

course) in the Windows\System32 folder, and delete the redundant ones.

 

Example:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-remove-duplicate-icons-from-the-control-panel/

 

 

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Regards,

 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog

 

 

"LuDean Marvin" <gardenerstouch@hotSSELMAPSmail.com> wrote in message

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>I have four "NetWork Setup Wizard" icons in my Control panel. Does anyone

>have any idea how the three duplicates got there or how I might get rid of

>them? Thanks to any suggestions!

Guest LuDean Marvin
Posted

Re: duplicate icons in Control Panel

 

Ramesh,

 

I found no alternate versions of that file in my windows/system32

directory (yes I did have hidden files set to be visible). Could this

be a registry problem?

 

LuDean

 

Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

> Look for duplicate copies of "netsetup.cpl" (with different names, of

> course) in the Windows\System32 folder, and delete the redundant ones.

>

> Example:

> http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-remove-duplicate-icons-from-the-control-panel/

>

>

Guest Rey Santos
Posted

Re: duplicate icons in Control Panel

 

The files may also be named "Copy of netsetup.cpl", "Copy 1 of netsetup.cpl"

and "Copy of netsetup.cpl"

 

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Rey

 

 

"LuDean Marvin" wrote:

> Ramesh,

>

> I found no alternate versions of that file in my windows/system32

> directory (yes I did have hidden files set to be visible). Could this

> be a registry problem?

>

> LuDean

>

> Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

> > Look for duplicate copies of "netsetup.cpl" (with different names, of

> > course) in the Windows\System32 folder, and delete the redundant ones.

> >

> > Example:

> > http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-remove-duplicate-icons-from-the-control-panel/

> >

> >

>

Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP
Posted

Re: duplicate icons in Control Panel

 

What Rey said. Or you could do a size-wise comparison (as in the link I

posted earlier) to see if there are any duplicates.

 

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Regards,

 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog

 

 

"Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> The files may also be named "Copy of netsetup.cpl", "Copy 1 of

> netsetup.cpl"

> and "Copy of netsetup.cpl"

>

> --

> Rey

>

>

> "LuDean Marvin" wrote:

>

>> Ramesh,

>>

>> I found no alternate versions of that file in my windows/system32

>> directory (yes I did have hidden files set to be visible). Could this

>> be a registry problem?

>>

>> LuDean

>>

>> Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

>> > Look for duplicate copies of "netsetup.cpl" (with different names, of

>> > course) in the Windows\System32 folder, and delete the redundant ones.

>> >

>> > Example:

>> > http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-remove-duplicate-icons-from-the-control-panel/

>> >

>> >

>>

Guest LuDean Marvin
Posted

Re: duplicate icons in Control Panel

 

Already done. There was only one cpl file that was 25 kb in size, And

the number of cpl files matches then number of items in the control

panel minus the extra three duplicates.

 

Something new to report. One time, I booted up, and the extra icons

were missing, but the next time I booted up, they re-appeared. All of

the icons are functional.

 

Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

> What Rey said. Or you could do a size-wise comparison (as in the link I

> posted earlier) to see if there are any duplicates.

>

Posted

Re: duplicate icons in Control Panel

 

*Bonjour LuDean Marvin * !

<news:uazAyzL$IHA.528@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>

> Already done. There was only one cpl file that was 25 kb in size, And the

> number of cpl files matches then number of items in the control panel minus

> the extra three duplicates.

> Something new to report. One time, I booted up, and the extra icons were

> missing, but the next time I booted up, they re-appeared. All of the icons

> are functional.

> Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

>> What Rey said. Or you could do a size-wise comparison (as in the link I

>> posted earlier) to see if there are any duplicates.

 

Try this workaround :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

ncpa.cpl = No

(REG_SZ value)

 

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Regards, Jean-François


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