Icon With Folder Named ~ Appears

[Jeff M]

Can someone please tell me what this is. Everytime I use programs, especially sending mail with Outlook, I get an icon that appears on my desktop and the name of it is ~. Is this a problem, or is something set to make this occur. If it is the latter, how do I turn it off, it is the first, how do I fix it
Any help would be greatly welcomed.

 

[Chuck]

Can someone please tell me what this is. Everytime I use programs, especially sending mail with Outlook, I get an icon that appears on my desktop and the name of it is ~. Is this a problem, or is something set to make this occur. If it is the latter, how do I turn it off, it is the first, how do I fix it.
Any help would be greatly welcomed.

Jeff,

What is the Tilde (~) file that appears on my Desktop?
http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Jeff,

It first appeared in November '02 with 331923/Cumulative Update for OE6-SP1
which was only available via manual download and with the more recent
330994/April '03 Cumulative Patch for OE, available via Windows Update.

You can either wait for the fix or follow the uninstall directions for the
patch at the link below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/330994/default.asp

A file named ~ appears on the desktop or in another location on the hard
disk
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=830921

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