My Bluetooth Places on Desktop won't go away

January 24, 2006 8:32 AM from

so i have all system icons on my desktop hidden using tweakui. but, My Bluetooth Places still shows up when iconX is active. if i turn off iconx, then it's not there as it should be. how can i have iconX not display this icon?

thanks

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Reply #1 January 25, 2006 7:44 AM from

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hello?

Reply #2 January 25, 2006 8:05 AM from

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hello?

No response means one or two things usually.
1) No one else has had this problem and don't know how to help.
2) Your problem got lost in the noise.

I fall into the first option.

But . . . Hello!

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Reply #3 January 25, 2006 8:38 AM from

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well, i would bet most people don't use bluetooth devices on their pc's. so this would be a bug with the application that should be looked into. so i would like to make sure that support teams see it for future development. yea yea, so i should email it to [email protected], but 9 times out of 10 i don't get a response there either.

Reply #4 January 25, 2006 8:45 AM from

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Try the Windows Xp option Clean Dekstop this will work....because I had the same problem.

Reply #5 January 25, 2006 8:47 AM from

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Extra info: click link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306542&sd=tech

Reply #6 January 25, 2006 8:48 AM from

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So this isn't a IconX bug....

Reply #7 January 25, 2006 8:49 AM from

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Ps don't hide desktop icons using TweakUi but use IconX for hidding icons.

Reply #8 January 25, 2006 9:37 AM from

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i would use icon x for doing it, if it was listed as an icon i could hide, but it is not. it's simply not listed, it seems that iconx just ignores the state of this icon, and displays it regardless. i've looked at the above ms article as well, that has nothing to do with the My Bluetooth Places icon. iconx is simply displayin an icon on my desktop, that is not there.

Reply #9 January 25, 2006 9:54 AM from

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Try it first before you judge. The Windows Desktop Clean up tool makes it possible to select icons and hide or show them on your desktop. Try the tool first for u judge.

Reply #10 January 25, 2006 9:59 AM from

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Tonight (in my conutry) i mayby show you some screenshots (if i have the time).

Reply #11 January 25, 2006 10:01 AM from

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i have tried the tool, i tried it b4 i hit submit post, but i'll go ahead and try it one more time right now.......yep, doesn't detect it, because i've already removed it, but iconx keeps putting it back. if i unload iconX, it's not there.

Reply #12 January 25, 2006 10:22 AM from

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Mayby Uninstall IconX (also check Application Data and registry). Then re-install IconX.

Reply #13 January 25, 2006 10:22 AM from

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Mayby Uninstall IconX (also check Application Data and registry). Then re-install IconX.

Reply #14 January 25, 2006 10:45 AM from

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Take a look at the *.items in your IconX directory and see if the bluetooth item is there. Delete it (after making a backup).

Reply #15 January 25, 2006 11:34 AM from

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i don't have any *.items on my entire drive, i searched all of C:\ because i didn't see anything in iconx program files folder.

i do have some icons on my desktop though, so shouldn't those show up at items i assume?

Reply #16 January 25, 2006 12:06 PM from

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Take a look at the *.items in your IconX directory and see if the bluetooth item is there. Delete it (after making a backup).

It really was a shot in the dark. I have a blank *.icons file and a *.items file that contained an old desktop icon.

Sorry it didn't help

Reply #17 January 25, 2006 12:22 PM from

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My Blue Tooth Places or Bluetooth Information Manager ( dell) will shop up when your computer is booted and your bluetooth device is activated. Turn off your bluetooth to get rid of it.

I believe, because it is summoned by your hardware status, it will always be sitting on top of whatever Object Desktop is doing

Reply #18 January 25, 2006 1:39 PM from

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I found an old post that may relate . . . be careful.

Newsgroups: stardock.desktopx
From: "Craig Corp"Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:27:40 -0700
Local: Wed, Jul 14 2004 5:27 pm
Subject: Re: Extra icon showing up with iconx

Never mind, I found a reg key under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Desktop/Name Space for the My Bluetooth Places icon and exported (in case I needed to reinsert) it and then deleted it. That seems to have fixed the problem entirely

Reply #19 January 25, 2006 1:44 PM from

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that is true, but i think u forget that, the icon is only showing up when iconx is on, if it's off, the icon isn't there. also, my bluetooth is off, but once u set up a device, u always have that, u don't have to have the device turned on to have the icon there.

Reply #20 January 25, 2006 1:52 PM from

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that reg hack worked, thanks

Reply #21 January 25, 2006 1:53 PM from

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that is true, but i think u forget that, the icon is only showing up when iconx is on

Right, sorry.

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