Hello Sandi, I can't help you here but I just want to say, I have the same problem already for a long time. Every time I plan to ask the group what that problem can be but my English is not so good and I didn't know how to tell this problem in English. I'm happy with you asking it on here so maybe somebody knows what it is and I can be helped also. Sylvia.........Holland. > For some time now I periodically have an icon show up on my desktop with the > upper right corner turned down and a flying window in a rectangular shaped > icon. Also there is ~ under it. > Properties says it is 247 kb and is MS-DOS name. I ran a virus scan and it > was clean so opened it and it went to an "open with" option. I chose > notepad and that was too small so went to WordPad and the stuff that comes > up is gibberish--lots of little squares, etc. Acrobat Reader says '~' is > not a supported file type or the file has been corrupted (i.e. sent as an > attachment and was not correctly decoded). > Guess it is no big problem but I am curious about what this is. I have > deleted it numerous times and it keeps popping back up. I checked the > recycle bin and counted 8 of them since I last emptied the bin. I usually > leave my computer on 24/7 so this may be just happening at boot up. I will > pay attention from now on and see if that is the case. > Does anyone know what this icon is for and why it is persisting in residing > on my desktop? > Sandi To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk