-=PCTechTalk=- odd icon on desktop

Hello, 
I'm new to this group, and I hope you all answer software questions as well as 
hardware ones. 

I wonder if anyone else has had this weird thing occur (I have Windows XP Pro).

Occasionally, after doing some unknown task, an odd item appears on my desktop. 
It has a generic icon under which is the tilde ~. Under Properties it has Type: 
File, Origin: Desktop, Size: 244 kb (maybe that's the size of the icon itself). 

When I double click on it, no program is slated to open it, of course, so I 
just delete it. But I am curious to know if others have had this. I haven't 
identified any pattern, except that I believe it happens after I have read some 
document on the web.

Thanks.

Liz
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