Thank you very much! Solved my problem...As you said I hope there will be an update so that we don't have to constantly do this...
Much appreciated, Cheers
Recent Places icon appearing on the desktop when ever I go to Recent Places in Favourites
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Anonymous
When ever I go to the Recent Places page in Favorites to clean up my memory this Recent Places icon appears on the desktop with NO option to right-click and delete OR drag it into the Recycle-bin
I found a tutorial on the web which gives us the way to remove the icon
1.Right-click the Recent Places tab in the Favorites area in Explorer.
2.Click 'Send to' and select Desktop
This will automatically overwrite the existing Icon and replace it with a DESKTOP SHORTCUT
3.Simply delete the Shortcut
But this issue should be fixed in a upcoming update or maybe it is fixed in Windows 8.1 because it is REALLY ANNOYING to this procedure EVERY time you empty Recent Places
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Anonymous
2014-10-04T15:34:31+00:00