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IE 6 icon option missing from Desktop Items window.

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by bustout

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I just did a clean install of XP on one of our companies laptops. I used the same XP pro SP2 disk that I've used hundreds of times to install XP on the same model laptop before.

This time around (and I didn't notice it until after I did all the windows updates so they could be to blame for all I know) the option to bring the IE 6 icon back to the desktop is completely missing from display properties.

I've tried removing IE from Windows and adding it back in. Which is a joke. It's like playing peekaboo with a todler. Just because Microsoft hides the icons doesn't mean that they remove it. But I digress..

I'm fresh out of ideas. Please help.

Thanks.

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by wet&webbed

A fellow technician reported seeing this problem on pc's all over our site & alerted me to this problem. KB943460 update downloaded & installed on my system sometime b4 Thanksgiving & I noticed the same problem. I uninstalled the update and the IE 6 icon was restored to display properties. The associated security info was somewhat ambiguous about whether or not the update is necessary for Windows XP & IE6. Apparently the update is to take care of a flaw in IE7 & Vista and it messes with shell32.dll where all the desktop icons are stored.

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