-=PCTechTalk=- Re: flying window icon

  • From: "SandiBeach" <SandiBeach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:29:29 -0500

Not at all Sylvia.  We are all in this thing together to help one another.
It is comforting to have company with a problem.
Sandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylviavandewall" <pvdw@xxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: flying window icon


> I have WindowsME. Right now I don't have it because just yesterday I
deleted
> it again and it always comes back after a while.
> Sorry Sandi, I hope you don't mind me interfering in your question.
> Sylvia.
>
>
> > What version of windows are you running ?? Also any chance you could zip
> it and send it to me off list I can try and look at it .. I have the same
> thing but it is not the Window icon <I changed all my system icons> and I
am
> running XP .. For me it turns out to be a copy of my Address book .. It
> doesn't seem to happen all the time though ..
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Sylviavandewall
> >   To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >   Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:39 PM
> >   Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: flying window icon
> >
> >
> >
> >   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
> >
> >
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