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Olen R. Pearson - 29 Dec 2005 19:19 GMT

Hi,

An odd icon has appeared in Win Explorer on the same screen with the disk
and control panel icons. This one says "Allaire FTP & RDS" which tells me
nothing. Nor, does the icon do anything that I can detect.

The icon cannot be deleted from this screen in WE. Nor can its properties
be check to see its origin. I have searched for the above phrase and
subphrases as text using WE and found a few fills that contain the string.
Deleting these does not remove the icon.

I searched for "Allaire FTP & BDS" and found the Macromedia was the common
theme, but I have not installed any media applications in many months.
Finally, I have looked through many settings in the Control Panel and found
nothing helpful.

Does anyone know how to kill this $@#&(!* thing????

Thanks,
Olen

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Alan Edwards - 29 Dec 2005 20:25 GMT

Several apps have been known to leave a "folder" in My Computer after
uninstalling.
It is a NameSpace item.
Go to REGEDIT.EXE and the CLSID of the icon will be under the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\mycomputer\NameSpace\

Your strange item should be in this area and be obvious.
Delete the item when you are sure. It is a good idea to export the
...\NameSpace\ key to a temp.reg file first, in case of errors

Get in touch if you need detailed help.

...Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html

>Hi,
>
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>Thanks,
>Olen

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Olen R. Pearson - 29 Dec 2005 23:34 GMT

Thanks, Alan! That worked GREAT! I wish I understood that registry a bit
better so I could have some idea of what I am doing in there.

Olen

> Several apps have been known to leave a "folder" in My Computer after
> uninstalling.
> It is a NameSpace item.
> Go to REGEDIT.EXE and the CLSID of the icon will be under the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\mycomp
uter\NameSpace\

> Your strange item should be in this area and be obvious.
> Delete the item when you are sure. It is a good idea to export the
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> >Thanks,
> >Olen

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