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03-Mar-2009, 08:04 PM #1
Exclamation Solved: May be a problem?
Recently I got onto my laptop and looked at the task bar. A new icon was there. So I checked the prosses... nothing, the services... nothing. Networking, CPU and RAM usage. Still nothing. I don't Know if it belongs to malware or is something having to do with hardware failure ect.

If you know what it is please post

It looks like a camera or mabye a HDD

http://s5.tinypic.com/10qyqtd.jpg
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04-Mar-2009, 04:22 AM #2
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Do you have an USB/Firewire external drive or USB Pen drive plugged in?
What do you get when you hover your mouse over it?
What do you get when you right click it?
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05-Mar-2009, 02:47 PM #3
Actualy, turns out msn messenger was f'ed up. I noticed the msn Icon didn't appear. So I re-installed it and the thingy whent away and msn was back. I think it was a registry glitch or something
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06-Mar-2009, 12:35 AM #4
That icon is #9 in shell32.dll, so a corrupt registry entry could have been pointing to there instead of the MSN Messenger file.

Good job on figuring it out, and thanks for posting the solution.
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