Vista - Unknown "tray" icon

Does anyone know what the icon on the right represents? It began appearing in the tray at system startup a couple of days ago for no apparent reason.


When I click it, an explorer window opens at "my computer" displaying all local & network drives.



Thanks

"Fred B." <trash01NoSpam@mindvacant.com> wrote in message news:689F97AA-42BE-4856-90E8-F52992BDEB59@microsoft.com...
Does anyone know what the icon on the right represents? It began appearing in the tray at system startup a couple of days ago for no apparent reason.


When I click it, an explorer window opens at "my computer" displaying all local & network drives.


Icons don't appear in the job trey for no reason and out of the clear blue sky. You had better track it down and find out what it is about. For all you know, it could be malware. You should look in all program Start-up areas and see what is starting on the computer.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2112752,00.asp
And please, don't make post with HTML enabled.

In message <DB4FB585-FB1A-4193-A4A5-DE303BEE5B6E@microsoft.com> "Mr.
Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote:

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Good advice.

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EARTH FIRST! We'll strip-mine the other planets later.

Hi Mr. Arnold

I thought that these kind of things were impossible in Vista ?



"Mr. Arnold" wrote:

>
> "Fred B." <trash01NoSpam@mindvacant.com> wrote in message
> news:689F97AA-42BE-4856-90E8-F52992BDEB59@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know what the icon on the right represents? It began
> appearing in the tray at system startup a couple of days ago for no
> apparent reason.
>
>
> When I click it, an explorer window opens at "my computer" displaying
> all local & network drives.
>
>
> Icons don't appear in the job trey for no reason and out of the clear
> blue sky. You had better track it down and find out what it is about. For
> all you know, it could be malware. You should look in all program Start-up
> areas and see what is starting on the computer.
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2112752,00.asp
> And please, don't make post with HTML enabled.
>
>
>

this is a microsoft news group. HTML has always been welcome.

do not use cruddy background colors, makes it hard to read.

using stationery is frowned upon.




mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message newsB4FB585-FB1A-4193-A4A5-DE303BEE5B6E@microsoft.com...

"Fred B." <trash01NoSpam@mindvacant.com> wrote in message news:689F97AA-42BE-4856-90E8-F52992BDEB59@microsoft.com...
Does anyone know what the icon on the right represents? It began appearing in the tray at system startup a couple of days ago for no apparent reason.


When I click it, an explorer window opens at "my computer" displaying all local & network drives.


Icons don't appear in the job trey for no reason and out of the clear blue sky. You had better track it down and find out what it is about. For all you know, it could be malware. You should look in all program Start-up areas and see what is starting on the computer.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2112752,00.asp
And please, don't make post with HTML enabled.

Many people turn off UAC which removes a proven line of defense.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Geo" <Geo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1B966BBF-6D54-49DE-9113-0E3D3EDB0A04@microsoft.com...
> Hi Mr. Arnold
>
> I thought that these kind of things were impossible in Vista ?
>
>
>
> "Mr. Arnold" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Fred B." <trash01NoSpam@mindvacant.com> wrote in message
>> news:689F97AA-42BE-4856-90E8-F52992BDEB59@microsoft.com...
>> Does anyone know what the icon on the right represents? It began
>> appearing in the tray at system startup a couple of days ago for no
>> apparent reason.
>>
>>
>> When I click it, an explorer window opens at "my computer" displaying
>> all local & network drives.
>>
>>
>> Icons don't appear in the job trey for no reason and out of the clear
>> blue sky. You had better track it down and find out what it is about. For
>> all you know, it could be malware. You should look in all program
>> Start-up
>> areas and see what is starting on the computer.
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2112752,00.asp
>> And please, don't make post with HTML enabled.
>>
>>
>>

"Geo" <Geo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1B966BBF-6D54-49DE-9113-0E3D3EDB0A04@microsoft.com...
> Hi Mr. Arnold
>
> I thought that these kind of things were impossible in Vista ?
>
>

Don't kid yourself -- Vista is just another NT based O/S written by fallible
Human Beings.

Anything can be circumvented and defeated and nothing is bullet proof when a
Human Being is sitting at the wheel with the happy fingers that will click
on anything under the Sun, allowing things to execute.

http://www.bootdisk.com/html.htm