Here’s an odd problem. The Administrative Tools icon recently appeared on my Windows XP desktop. No idea how it got there, I must have accidentally dragged it out of the Control Panel.

Of course Windows will not let me drag it back into the Control Panel and if I try to delete it, I get "Administrative Tools is a Windows system folder and is required for Windows to run properly. It cannot be deleted."

I spent hours trying to get rid of this thing. To save you all the same trouble, let me tell you the only solution I could come up with was to drag the thing to another folder. I put it in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop since I rarely log in as Administrator. I guess it will just have to stay there!