White Icon On Desktop of Windows 10 Wont Go Away Fix

After upgrading to windows 10 you may find a white icon on your desk top that wont go away, you delete it, refest the desktop and the icon comes back, and yet you cant get any information about the icon at all besides delete, copy and create short cut?

Chances are its an OLD icon for internet explorer (some people use a reg tweak or tweakUI or similar programme to place a real internet explorer launcher on the desktop)  If thats the case and you remember doing that, you can try using this regfile to remove the Icon

right click on desk top, select New Text paste this in, save as  fix.reg
(make sure its not    fix.reg.txt  (it has to be .reg)  right click select merge, right click on Desktop select refresh and the Horrid useless white icon will be gone...
MAKE SURE WORD WRAP IS OFF
(to do that click the word "format" in notepad and make sure wordwrap is not ticked)
Your FINAL reg file should contain  THREE lines  (not 4)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30301D}]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30301D}]

also what about that Language bar you used to be able to click, tick don't show and its gone?
to remove the Language selector out the system tray, right click on the task bar, select properties, then under Notification area click Customise.. and the Language selection Bar / button  is now called " Input Local " turn that off and language bar be gone

Is Windows 10 Really Seeding Updates On The Bandwidth of The End User & Informing Others You Miss Certain Security Fixes?

Is Windows 10 Really Seeding Updates On The Bandwidth of The End User AND!

 Informing Others You Miss Certain Security Fixes?

IS THIS FOR REAL???

IF and i stress  IF  (for the legal FKS at microsoft)  If this is what it simply says it is then I personally  see MASSIVE DANGERS IN THIS

A) Your seeding updates to total strangers, allowing strangers systems to Network with your machine

B) a 3rd party machine can essentially knock on your door and ask for an update?..

what if you don't have that update?
that means someone knows you don't have that update right?
ber in mind a vulnerability nicely worded as "elevate privileges"
(loosely translated means make a user account, demote you from an admin to a user, then control your system and do what they want with it)

This is like wtf.... AGAIN...  you may remember my disgust when i found windows would also share Error Reports with other users & other stuff with gawd knows what if you don't Untick a mountain of stuff when ya first install it.. but this...    god help people tethering or using a dongle with that switched on.. let alone the Enforced updates.. note that things Switched ON by default
no wonder windows 10 is free to upgrade to...

So how long till they start charging us for Updates?
while our old windows 7 or 8.1 was still entitled to FREE updates until how long?...

Not a wise move when iPhones and iPads wipe the floor with windows poor use of CPU's... more and more people are leaving pc's and laptops for phones..

i sit here shell shocked at this fkn manoeuvre....

How to temporarily prevent a Windows or driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10

In Windows 10, your device is always kept up to date with the latest features and fixes. Updates and drivers are installed automatically, with no need to select which updates are needed or not needed. In rare cases, a specific driver or update might temporarily cause issues with your device, and in this case you will need a way to prevent the problematic driver or update from reinstalling automatically the next time Windows Updates are installed.

Solution 01:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

Solution 02:

1. Click the Start button and select Settings.
2. Inside Windows 10 Settings, click on Update and Security.
3. when that opens, click on the Advanced Option near the bottom of the right hand sideunder the Windows Update section.
4. under Advanced Options section "windows will ask how you’d change how updates are installed. By default, the automatic is selected. click on that drop-down menu and select Notify to schedule restart.

Windows 10 is Comming Have You Spotted It On Your Drive Yet?

As it nears the end of July Windows 10 sneaks into peoples computers & laptops and sits dormant on your hard disk..

not wondered where that 6+ Gigabyte of drive space vanished to?

Many of you will see (if you enable show hidden files & folders) a new director in your root drive called

$Windows.~BT

on my system its located here

C:\$Windows.~BT

lot of people are asking how to delete this folder, personally ide leave it alone.. for now!

I am just Unpacking the  ESD file that is no doubt the install.wim inside
once that's unpacked i shall see if MS are Backing up my current Recovery OS to that ESD  OR ile find out if that ESD is in fact windows 10...

If it is windows 10 i will be curios to see if its an x64 version or whether they plan to rip me off with an x86 version..

IF it is a multi image inside the ESD (of my own OS) i guess i could make an ISO which in turn would give me a working installable version of    "Windows 8.1 with Bing"
which i have in my recovery partition (yeah i know bing is crap, but the OS is legal for this board!!!)

Outside (parallel to the Sources folder) is another folder called   NewOS
i assume that is where the Windows 10 ESD will download to and the sources folder
the Bing version of windows 8.1 is pretty rare (on a disk) and its 20+ GB with the OEM bloatware, lowest i got it seams to be also the exact size MS have taken it down to (but a backup would still require duel layer dvd)

Ive also noticed in the "Sources" folder were the ESD is, their is NO   boot.wim
one can only wonder how many people have burnt this to a DVD to find it wont boot up..
Will adding the boot.wim from the recovery partition to the sources folder before burning to dvd work?  i duno..  what i do know is you'd have to make a Bootlable ISO from the folder and have the bootwim.. still no guarantees.. but just dragging  the whole thing to a dvd and burning will not make it boot up a computer (as the disk wont be boot-able) 

I seam to also have a folder PRE MOUNTED here
C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\SafeOS\SafeOS.Mount