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| Thread ID: 34550 | 2003-06-16 12:25:00 | Mystery icon entitled "~" appears on desktop | Roly (2259) | Press F1 |
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| 152998 | 2003-06-16 12:25:00 | Every week or two, a mystery icon arrives from nowhere on my desktop in Windows 98. It is merely entitled "~", sized 205KB, and has no other features under Properties, other than its attribute is 'archive'. My virus checker says that it can't find anything wrong with the file. So I just send it off to the Recycle Bin. Any clues what this is? | Roly (2259) | ||
| 152999 | 2003-06-16 12:29:00 | Hello. I have noticed that my mother is having the same problem with this mystery icon. She is running win xp. so if you do find out - I would be interested to know as well. |
kerry31 (4027) | ||
| 153000 | 2003-06-16 12:35:00 | That "~" (tilde) file is most probably appearing as the result of installing the "April 2003, Cumulative Patch for Outlook Express (330994)" . Microsoft is aware of the problem and is supposedly working on a fix . Many people are experiencing this problem and from what I've read about this problem that icon will also reappear when you reply to an e-mail and you have your Outlook Express set up to enter the persons e-mail address to your address book whenever you reply to an e-mail . You can either just put up with it or follow the uninstall directions for the patch here ( . microsoft . com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/330994/default . asp" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 153001 | 2003-06-16 21:37:00 | Well, it had me confused too. Cheers. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 153002 | 2003-06-16 22:03:00 | Well I'm glad I'm not the only one chasing this problem. My ~ file is appearing in the boot directory and had me more than a little worried. I'll also have to apologise to my Daughter as I was blaming her favourite program (MSN Messenger) for the problem. :-) |
Capt Jimbo (17) | ||
| 153003 | 2003-06-16 23:19:00 | This problem was covered in this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) no long ago | Jim B (153) | ||
| 153004 | 2003-06-17 06:10:00 | As always, when it comes to Internet browsers and email clients - GO Netscape! (I'm not financially bound to them, BTW) | Greg S (201) | ||
| 153005 | 2003-06-20 05:39:00 | What does it mean/do though, is it anything to be concernd about? | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 153006 | 2003-06-20 06:57:00 | Did you read GF and JB? | Thomas (1820) | ||
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