How to get rid of the "Share-to-Web Upload Folder"
January 30th, 2008
If you have a Hewlett Packard ScanJet you probably have been annoyed by this stupid HP Share-to-Web Upload Folder that has been settled in your Desktop. There seems to be no obvious way to remove it or delete it, and if you try to right-click on it the Windows Explorer hangs and you have to restart it.
Here is what you have to do to send it from where it came:
Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs. After the list is populated find and highlight the program named HP Photo and Imaging. Then push the Change button. The InstallShield Wizard will show up. Click Next and then select Repair. Click Next again. In the next step make sure that you DON'T check the Add a Shortcut to the Desktop checkbox. Finally click Install. By the end of the procedure you should see the evil icon missing from your Desktop.
Here is what you have to do to send it from where it came:
Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs. After the list is populated find and highlight the program named HP Photo and Imaging. Then push the Change button. The InstallShield Wizard will show up. Click Next and then select Repair. Click Next again. In the next step make sure that you DON'T check the Add a Shortcut to the Desktop checkbox. Finally click Install. By the end of the procedure you should see the evil icon missing from your Desktop.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:08 am Try "explore". Look in the folder list for this folder. It should be by itself. Click on the folder and you are given a choice to remove the folder from the desktop along with the string to access it if you ever want to.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pm Thanks so much, This problem has been driving me crazy!!!
August 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm "Share-to-Web Upload Folder"
is not a file. It is a folder with a special abilities.
Most of its settings and values that cause this folder to exist, are stored in the windows registry. I encountered a problem while
removing this icon from my desktop the usual way.
I am user of Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems, and this problem ocured on Windows Vista.
There was no Delete option, and the only way to remove it, is by using its own special options provided by that icon when clicked
with right mouse button on it.
These options offered to "Not show this icon on desktop".
But, whenever i select that option, and click "Next>" the application freezes.
And that's it... end of the story, you can't remove
it ...you can't do anything...
But actually you can ... here is how i did it.
The following steps should help removing this icon from desktop: ...
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1. Start > Run > "regedit.exe" {enter}
2. Click the computer icon on the top of the branch on the left side.
3. Edit > Find > "Share-to-Web Upload Folder" {enter}
4.
...found something like this...
{A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9} > delete the entire folder from the branch on the left side.
NOTICE: The "{A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9}" value might be different from the one I found.
5.
Edit > Find Next (or you can click F3)
...
{A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9} > delete it.
Edit > Find Next ...
Key: {A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9} > delete it.
Find Next ...
{repeat these steps "Find next, delete" until you delete all the values containing the word "Share-to-Web Upload Folder"}
......
Finished searching.
6. Refresh your desktop, and the icon is gone, removed.
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There is no need to uninstall the program that is related to this icon.
If the program such as scanning software (related to this icon) works then it would be a good idea to leave it.
The only problem I had was removing this icon, because i didn't really need it.
Everything else worked just fine.
Windows registry in windows operating systems is database that holds all settings related information.
There you can change all sorts of stuff related to installed applications and operating system itself.
Editing the windows registry in wrong ways could cause a system damage.
The steps given above edit a windows registry and should not cause any kind of system damage.
September 15th, 2008 at 7:19 am The install is very annoying. I have to install a huge 200MB+ driver. Unfortunately, the desktop icon persists for me, and I ran the install\fix twice, BOTH TIMES un-checking the "shortcut to desktop" icon. And it can't be deleted or dragged to the recycle bin.
Here's how I removed it quickly:
1. Ran "HP share to web" wizard (start menu).
2. Selected at least one of the sites (won't let you proceed if none are checked).
3. Selected "no, do not show folder".
Removed! Yay!
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:47 am YES! The reg edit worked. Nothing else.
Thank you sincerely & profoundly, cyberjdox
I hated that thing.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:08 pm Actually, if you open up Add/Remove, there will be an HP Share-to-We app. Just uninstall and viola.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 pm ScanJet 3970; running XP on my laptop.
What works may depend on your product and the specific software version (ver 2.2 for Windows in my case) that came with it.
There was no Add/Remove option for Share-to-Web, itself, on my setup.
The "Change" option looked like it might work but then reinstalled the icon despite the fact that I'd unchecked the desktop icon option.
With some trepidation I finally tried the regedit.exe path, rebooted the machine and the icon IS STILL THERE, albeit, without a name, now!
Any more ideas?
August 30th, 2009 at 7:15 am None of these solutions worked for me.
I have vista.
The original solution, DON'T check the Add a Shortcut to the Desktop checkbox. Finally click Install. I get an error that I need at least internet explorer 5.0 to do this. I have internet explorer 7.
Parker's "solution" is the same solution that you get if you right click the icon (the icon hangs, and must be closed)
cyberdjox solutions does not work, I deleted all of the regedit files and refreshed, still on the desktop.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am "Parker says". You the hero. Worked and so simple. Thanks
September 15th, 2009 at 10:53 am "Parker Says". You the hero. Worked and so simple. Thanks
October 26th, 2009 at 8:31 pm Great "Parker" easy solution. Thanks a lot.