Thursday, June 11, 2009

Remove “My Bluetooth Places” Shortcut from Your Desktop

 Windows XP only:image

  1. Right click anywhere on your desktop (not on an icon), click “Properties”
  2. Click the “Desktop” tab.
  3. Click the “Customize Desktop…” button.
  4. Click the “Clean Desktop Now” button.
  5. Click the “Next >” button.
  6. Check the “My Bluetooth Places” checkbox if it is not already checked.
  7. Click the “Next >” button.
  8. Click the “Finish” button.
  9. Click the “OK” button. Click the “OK” button.
  10. A folder called Unused Desktop Icons will be created on the desktop with the My Bluetooth Places icon in it.
  11. Delete this folder

Alternative way:

  1. Run regedit ([Win]+[R] >> regedit)
  2. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\desktop\NameSpace
  3. Delete 32B4C379-4AC0-45F2-939C-D4E7ADA56DC5 or just check which one is “My Bluetooth Places” and delete it.

If you want you can export the key in case you delete the wrong key or want the Shortcut back sometime later. (via, via)

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