Fix to remove Sony Ericsson Desktop Icon

A good friend of mine recently brought her mobile with her and connected it to my computer. The phone was the Sony Ericsson W810i and I had to install the software for the mobile that I downloaded from the official homepage. Everything worked fine until I uninstalled the software again and realized that the desktop icon was not removed during the uninstallation.

I tried to delete the icon by selecting it and hitting Del and was puzzled that the file was still on my desktop afterwards. Right-clicking the icon revealed that many menu entries were missing. There was no way to delete the file or take a look at the properties. Moving the icon into the recycle bin had no effect as well.

After some frantic researching on the internet I found a way to delete the icon directly in the registry. The icon – and many others – is located in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\. The key was {A5110426-177D-4e08-AB3F-785F10B4439C} but could be different for your icon. All I had to do was to delete the complete key (starting with A5..) and restart the computer afterwards.

Finally, after restarting the computer, the icon was no longer on my desktop. Hope this helps everyone else who is having troubles with the Sony Ericsson icon or icons from other companies.

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Tags: desktop icon, sony ericsson, sony mobile phone, sony phone
Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

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5 Responses to “Fix to remove Sony Ericsson Desktop Icon”

1. simon t says:

   February 28, 2007 at 5:10 pm

   Had been having trouble with this software and this very issue for months now,so thanks very much for the advice.It worked a treat!

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2. Christopher Sahnwaldt says:

   April 22, 2007 at 9:46 pm

   Had the same problem! Thanks for the solution!

   Reply
3. Gordon says:

   July 25, 2007 at 4:34 am

   Thank you so much for sharing the information!

   Reply
4. rwhitesell says:

   October 2, 2007 at 1:54 pm

   You can also remove the icon by using microsofts tweakui program.

   Reply
5. Tech Forum says:

   May 20, 2008 at 6:07 pm

   Thanks for the tip. I was looking to remove this for a very long time.

   Reply