I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
Oh yeah, look for the application mentioned below. Spent a good part
of yesterday getting the critter off my system. FixIEDef. Google it.
Works like a charm.
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:34:27 -0700 (PDT), Sin Jeong-hun
<typingcat@gmail.com> wrote:
>I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
>dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
>lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
Got a program aboard with an associated trojan. Loaded it was eating
memory... grinding, grinding, always 97% memory usage. In addition to
which IE would take FOREVER to load. And when I ran defrag, etc.
there were always two messages, one says it cannot locate the recycle
(not sure if this problem is related.) While the second message was
that the cache for IE was missing or otherwise not accessible. So I
removed one trojan and an IE cache rider that was seriously malicious.
Then, when dumping the above,a program purporting to be from XP
hijacked IE and started what appeaed to be an official virus scan.When
I tried to click the site and figure out what was going on, it
suddenly closed. I then ran Spy Doc and found the scan had planted
changes in my registry. Spyware got some out, after which I did a
google on the critter and found a program called FixIEDef. I hit run
and it scanned my registry and came up with the following:
"Sin Jeong-hun" <typingcat@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c1b1ff34-0767-4ca4-ba53-e36994d1308a@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
> dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
> lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
Do you have IE 7 installed? If so, take a look at the following article.
If that happens, right click an open spot in the right hand pane and select
New ->DWORD value from the menu. Right click the new value and select Modify
from the menu. Change the name to {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} and set
the entry under Value data to 0.
Apologies. I need to increase the font size. Can't tell what message
I'm responding to.
Glump,
Molly
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:34:27 -0700 (PDT), Sin Jeong-hun
<typingcat@gmail.com> wrote:
>I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
>dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
>lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
On Jul 6, 1:20*am, "Nepatsfan" <nepats...@SBXXXIX.com> wrote:
> "Sin Jeong-hun" <typing...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c1b1ff34-0767-4ca4-ba53-e36994d1308a@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
> > dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
> > lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
>
> Do you have IE 7 installed? If so, take a look at the following article.
>
> Internet Explorer 7 Desktop icon missinghttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/555849
>
> Note: You may not find the value listed in that article in the right hand pane
> of this registry key.
>
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\HideDesktopIcons\Ne*wStartPanel
>
> If that happens, right click an open spot in the right hand pane and select
> New ->DWORD value from the menu. Right click the new value and select Modify
> from the menu. Change the name to {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} and set
> the entry under Value data to 0.
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
Thank you for your answer. So it's not because of Service Pack 3, but
because of IE 7. However, what I wanted to know was not the solution
but the reason. I've read the article you have mentioned and found
that it is "by design". I still don't understand since I think many
people want the IE icon on their desktop. Does someone know why
Microsoft changed the design? Isn't this somehow related to the anti-
monopoly or something?
Sin Jeong-hun wrote:
>>> I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
>>> dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
>>> lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
>>
>> Do you have IE 7 installed? If so, take a look at the following article.
>>
>> Internet Explorer 7 Desktop icon
>> missinghttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/555849
>>
>> Note: You may not find the value listed in that article in the right hand
>> pane of this registry key.
>>
>> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\HideDesktopIcons\Ne*wStartPanel
>>
>> If that happens, right click an open spot in the right hand pane and
>> select
>> New ->DWORD value from the menu. Right click the new value and select
>> Modify from the menu. Change the name to
>> {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} and set the entry under Value data
>> to 0.
>
> Thank you for your answer. So it's not because of Service Pack 3, but
> because of IE 7. However, what I wanted to know was not the solution
> but the reason. I've read the article you have mentioned and found
> that it is "by design". I still don't understand since I think many
> people want the IE icon on their desktop. Does someone know why
> Microsoft changed the design? Isn't this somehow related to the anti-
> monopoly or something?
Something like that, yes (and MS is saying anything about it).
Those with IE7-specific questions or comments are asked to post to and seek
support in this newsgroup: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
"Sin Jeong-hun" <typingcat@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 6, 1:20 am, "Nepatsfan" <nepats...@SBXXXIX.com> wrote:
> "Sin Jeong-hun" <typing...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c1b1ff34-0767-4ca4-ba53-e36994d1308a@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I can't find Internet Explorer in the Desktop icon customization
> > dialog on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Is this because of some sort of
> > lawsuit thing from other web browser makers?
>
> Do you have IE 7 installed? If so, take a look at the following article.
>
> Internet Explorer 7 Desktop icon missinghttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/555849
>
> Note: You may not find the value listed in that article in the right hand pane
> of this registry key.
>
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\HideDesktopIcons\Ne*wStartPanel
>
> If that happens, right click an open spot in the right hand pane and select
> New ->DWORD value from the menu. Right click the new value and select Modify
> from the menu. Change the name to {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} and
> set
> the entry under Value data to 0.
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>Thank you for your answer. So it's not because of Service Pack 3, but
>because of IE 7. However, what I wanted to know was not the solution
>but the reason. I've read the article you have mentioned and found
>that it is "by design". I still don't understand since I think many
>people want the IE icon on their desktop. Does someone know why
>Microsoft changed the design? Isn't this somehow related to the anti-
>monopoly or something?
You might want to ask that question in the IE7 newsgroup. Any response I could
make would be speculation. Search Google Groups for
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general.
Why there's no IE icon on SP3? 
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