>The most reliable way of dealing with this issue is to do what used to >be called a nuke & pave i.e., save your data, erase every thing on the >installation drive then reinstall XP then run install SP3, then finally >allow it to update, and then finally reinstall all of your programs. >That's a lot of work, but it works every time and most folks find their >XP system runs a lot faster for a while since a lot of crud has been >gotten rid of.
Seems like a heck of a lot of work to just get rid of an icon. I would double check that all the software related to the old scanner is deleted. Then I would run a registry cleaner. That should detect orphaned registry keys and prompt you to delete them. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
