Removing desktop icon

[huckleberry]

How do I keep magicjack from installing a new desktop icon each time it restarts. I dont want the icon on my desktop as I can manually start it from my toolbar if the autorun does not start it. This is very anoying because if you deleate the icon it just reappears the next time you restart MJ.

[MagicHack]

How do I keep magicjack from installing a new desktop icon each time it restarts. I dont want the icon on my desktop as I can manually start it from my toolbar if the autorun does not start it. This is very anoying because if you deleate the icon it just reappears the next time you restart MJ.

You'll need to disable autoruns. The desktop icon is installed whenever setup/magicjackloader is run.

From now on, start your jack manually using a command like:

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"C:\Documents and Settings\<yourname>\Application Data\mjusbsp\magicJack.exe" /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot "F:\magicJack"

[huckleberry]

Thx Magichack but could u clarify how I do this a little more. Srry

[couch-potato]

MagicHack could probably answer better, but in the meantime until he replies, I'll tell you what I did. This is from another posting
http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/magi ... -t867.html
but uses that same command.

1. Highlight the code that MagickHack provided.
2. Right-click, and select copy
3. minimize everything and go to your desktop
4. Right-click on your desktop, select New > Shortcut
5. Paste the code in to the box that says "Type the location of the item" in the "Create Shortcut" window
6. change the <yourname> in the code to your name (or whatever user name you are logged in as on your computer)
7. change the drive if necessary - in this example it is F:
8. Click next
9. Give it whatever name you want.
10. click finish

To start MagicJack manually, double-click that new shortcut.

I wanted MagicJack to start automatically, but I got tired of seeing the splash screen "one minute of patience, a lifetime of savings" that would never minimize, so I did the following:

11. open your startup folder (click Start > All Programs then double-click on startup)
12. minimize everything else and move the startup folder around the desktop so that you can see your newly created shortcut on the desktop.
13. Click and drag that shortcut into your startup folder

I don't understand the code at all, I don't know what it means or what it does, according to MagicHack it will stop MJ from creating a new desktop shortcut everytime it runs, and according to ejg528 it will bypass the splash screen.

As far as the other comment about disabling autoruns, I'll just quote ejg528 from that other posting I mentioned at the beginning:

To disable the MagicJack software/service at startup, go into Start / Run and type msconfig. On the Startup tab, there will be either one or two checkboxes called "cdloader2." Uncheck the box(es).

Reboot your machine, and you'll see a popup about some configuaration changing. Put a check in the box saying something like "never show this again" and click OK. That should do it. Magic Jack should never start automatically again.

--ejg528

Hope this helps

[scrnchr]

Windows XP SP3
magicJack dll version 1.80.466.3


Hi, the code discussed above doesn't work for me. I've unchecked the cdloader2 in msconfig and executing the shortcut doesn't do anything. The shortcut has this code, as above:

"C:\Documents and Settings\<yourname>\Application Data\mjusbsp\magicJack.exe" /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot "F:\magicJack"

My magicJack uses drives E: and F: so F: appears to be the right drive. I tried it with E: and it didn't work that way, either. I changed <yourname> to the right username. I opened a command prompt, navigated to the mjusbsp directory and tried issuing the command

magicJack.exe /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot "F:\magicJack"

with and without the parameters and nothing happens. The cursor turns into a pointer with an hourglass for a few seconds and then nothing.

When I look in Windows Task Manager, magicJack is not running.

I can still get it running by clicking on the original desktop icon. My goal is to get rid of that icon and the splash screen.

My magicJack is newer than those being discussed in this post--did they change something?

Where can I review the command parameters for the magicJack.exe command?

Thanks in advance.

[scrnchr]

Still no luck with this. Has anyone been able to get rid of the desktop icon and the splash screen? Thanks.

[az2008]

Still no luck with this. Has anyone been able to get rid of the desktop icon and the splash screen?

See the wiki FAQ for instructions to start MJ without the splash screen.

Not sure about the shortcut.

Mark

[scrnchr]

Thanks for the quick reply. I found the wiki faq:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MagicJack

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MagicJack/ ... ash_Screen

...and then, my bad, I found my error. When I copied the code above I had the window fairly narrow and it split the code line into two lines. It didn't paste right, and when I pasted the rest I missed that there is a space after the /scf.

How dumb is that.

So now it works. I unchecked cdloader2 in msconfig startup, made a magicJack noloader shortcut with the code above and put that shortcut in the all users startup folder. Now mj starts with no splash screen and doesn't recreate the desktop icon.

Thanks for the help.

[mberlant]

A happy ending is its own reward. Thank you for sharing your solution.

[JohnnyFreightTRAIN]

What I did was right clicked the icon, went to properties and made it hidden so i couldnt see it.

LOL