3D
Tennessee - but have itchy feet
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Had a new icon pop up a few weeks ago, and could not determine what task it identified. Had to restore to to get rid of it.
Icon was simply a rectangle (like the shape of a monitor) and had a red circle with a red line across the circle....similar to the symbol above a no parking sign symbol or no walking symbol or whatever...meaning "no or don't". After restoring the icon is gone from the task bar and also gone from properties list of icons. It reappears from time to time, but I cannot determine what action causes it, and putting the curser on the icon does nothing. I had looked at properties before the restore operation, and the task identified by this symbol said "unidentified".
What is it?
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skipnchar
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That would most likely be a network connection and the symbol may be telling you that the connection was inactive or disconnected. Just guessing but on my laptop I get one for each type of connection (local area, WAN, wireless, and DSL. I also get a balloon telling me something like "the wireless connection is not available" on boot up.
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Rangerdave
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if you get it back on your screen, hit controll& print screen at the same time. that will take a screen shot of your screen. then open microsoft paint and then paste the screen shot there and save it as a "jpeg".
post it here and we'll tell ya what its about.
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3D
Tennessee - but have itchy feet
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The above posts did not show until I added this post. Strange! OK, will do a screen print and will try that. It is not the icon for connections...they are there too.
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3D
Tennessee - but have itchy feet
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Found it! Disabled the touch pad since I was getting erroneous cursor actions; thought I might be touching the pad by mistake. The phantom icon appears when the touchpad is disabled. Was preparing to do the screen print when the light suddenly dawned! Thanks for help.
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Rangerdave
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glad to hear. nothing like something on your desktop that you dont know what its about.
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