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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 19782" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>@Shaun - </p><p>one other word of warning...</p><p>you mentioned a couple of times that you deleted the icon. Don't forget: an icon in your start menu is not the program itself, but merely a shortcut to the program. The program is stored somewhere else iin your computer. And an icon on the desktop will also (almost always) be just a shortcut (most software gets installed in such a way that a shortcut appears on the desktop, with the actual program being stored somewhere else within your computer's directrory structure).</p><p></p><p>It is the program that is doing the dialing, not the shortcut to it. If the program is already installed and active (eg set to auto-dial periodically, or perhaps even defined as a startup program in Windows) then deleting just a shortcut to it will not help. You should ideally check the "properties" of the icon to determine whether it is indeed merely a shortcut, and if so what is the actual location on your computer of the dialer program that it is pointing to - so you can delete that.</p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 19782, member: 174998"] @Shaun - one other word of warning... you mentioned a couple of times that you deleted the icon. Don't forget: an icon in your start menu is not the program itself, but merely a shortcut to the program. The program is stored somewhere else iin your computer. And an icon on the desktop will also (almost always) be just a shortcut (most software gets installed in such a way that a shortcut appears on the desktop, with the actual program being stored somewhere else within your computer's directrory structure). It is the program that is doing the dialing, not the shortcut to it. If the program is already installed and active (eg set to auto-dial periodically, or perhaps even defined as a startup program in Windows) then deleting just a shortcut to it will not help. You should ideally check the "properties" of the icon to determine whether it is indeed merely a shortcut, and if so what is the actual location on your computer of the dialer program that it is pointing to - so you can delete that. 2old [/QUOTE]
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