Mysterious desktop icon identified!

Published December 11, 2003

Does a strange icon labeled only with a tilde (~) keep appearing on your desktop? The mystery is now solved. It’s apparently a harmless but annoying bug, caused by a combination of a Microsoft security patch and an Outlook Express setting. Read details in this article on Computing.Net: Strange ~ icon on desktop solved. Kudos to whoever figured this one out.

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