Windows 7: How To Remove the My Bluetooth Places Icon from the Desktop

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
Tag Icon Tagged: Microsoft Windows 7  

If you are tired of having to deal with the My Bluetooth Places icon resting on your otherwise perfect desktop, you can get rid of it by following these steps.

1. Click the Orb (Start Button).

2. Go to the Search programs and files textbox and input regedit.

3. Select regedit.exe from the results.

4. When the UAC prompt appears, click the Yes button.

5. In the left pane of the Registry Editor, go to (and select):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\

6. In the right pane, locate the sub-key with the default value of My Bluetooth Places. Delete this sub-key (and ONLY this sub-key!).

Close regedit and press F5 to refresh your screen. The icon will be gone.

 

4 Comments -


  1. Çody Paÿne said on November 23, 2010

    This didn’t work at all. How do I remove it?!!???????????!?!

  2. bernardescano said on January 30, 2011

    This does not work.

  3. a man said on August 25, 2011

    deleting the whole key (the folder containing the subkey My Bluetooth Places) solves the problem, although the above howto and several others suggest otherwise.

    even i tried deleting only the relevant subkey but it didnt work.

    delete the whole folder, and it’ll be gone.

    you can save the value somewhere if you dont want to take a chance ( i didnt!)

  4. a man said on August 25, 2011

    oh yes! don’t delete the whole NameSpace folder (that contains many folders, each contain different subkeys for different desktop icons)!
    maybe that’s what the poster meant…

    only the folder that contains the subkey My Bluetooth Places is to be deleted.
    check the subkeys in each folder under NameSpace first to make sure you go to your target.

 

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