This is to wierd.
I read this message yesterday afternoon and the same icon showed up on my
laptop last night after I updated my eTrust antivirus from version 6.2 to
version 7.
I opened it with MS-DOS Editor and it looked like a leftover log file.
I just deleted it.
Clint Worley
Worley Technology
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:21:04 -0500 Sven <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Hello Carol,
>
> Does the icon have a name? Check the following Microsoft Knowledge
> Base
> article and see if it applies.
>
> A file that is named "~" appears on the desktop...
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;830921
>
> Sven Swanson, Sr.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:36 PM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Unusual desktop icon
>
>
> I had this problem once before, and now I can't remember how I fixed
> it!
>
> I did some Win98 updates at the Microsoft site. Now I'm getting an
> icon
> on my desktop that looks like a blank piece of paper with the right
> top
> corner folded over and the Windows logo on it. If you double click
> it,
> you get the window that wants you to choose a program to open it.
> When
> this happened before, the icons would just keep appearing,
> seemingly
> every time I logged on. A few months ago, someone said it had
> something
> to do with the address book, I think......that there was some glitch
> in
> the Microsoft Windows update, but I can't remember what they said to
> do
> to stop it. Help?
> Carol Hanson
>
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