I’d love to conquer this! I will…

Thanks a lot for the quick reply! I can defiantly say it doesn’t work in X64. I was waiting for a reply from you about Franks post since he asked if it would work, it left uncertainty in my mind. I’ll go ahead and try it now and post back the results. Everything I’ve tried so far has appeared to either do nothing, or delete the icon but also the libraries in Explorer. This is very frustrating and Microsoft needs to provide a patch for this.

Anyways, I’ll let you know what happens and thank you so much for trying this out on 64bit, I hope you were planning on doing that already and not just doing it for me/us.

Take care.

I only tried this on a 32-Bit RTM build but I’ll install a 64-bit version on my new PC (which finally arrived after waiting 3 months for the Radeon HD5870 to become available at decent prices!) within the next few days, so I can check if it works on 64 bit, too.

“I created copies of them with value 1 under HKCU\…\ClassicStartMenu and HKCU\…\NewStartPanel”

Did you copy ALL entries or only the DD5 and A93 entries? Would it be possible for you to create a .reg file with exactly what you did. I felt as though I understood what you wanted me to do, but with it not working I’m trying to figure out anything that can help me.

I appreciate your time.

I really have ripped nearly all my hair out as I’m one of those *weird* guys that likes having my desktop how I want it, not how a computer says its going to be. I don’t want this icon on my desktop but it looks like I’ll have to accept it. If you have any other ideas… PLEASE email me or post it here, I’ll check back. I’m so tired of the silly mistakes that Microsoft makes. There was no options during any part of the file transfers to not have this happen. And from the looks of google searching, many many people are having this happen to them with no real fix found yet.

Does your fix only work on 32bit? Or are you using a beta build? I’m at a loss….

Thanks for trying to help me, thanks for helping others.