Contextual menu from desktop

I noticed an unusual, but useful, contextual menu from my desktop today. It said "Clean Up" as it pertained to the alignment of icons on the desktop. I had first tried to put my dock on the right side of my screen. I haven't used it there because the desktop icons were always behind it! Well, when I tested this new "Clean Up" it straightened up the icons and bumped them over away from the Dock!
So - where did this mysterious "Clean Up" option come from? I have no idea! Anyone? The other login on my Mac doesn't have it.

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ as the path; in addition, check that the view settings for the desktop are the same on both accounts.
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Safari Desktop Picture.tiff
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
I dont even remember the version. the apple service center installed it when they were checking my super drive. i just deleted the crap to trash.
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there must be a way to remove it from my context menu on right clicks.... running version 5.1 network magic pro.
already unchecked settings to remove network folder from my desktop.
i have no reason to use the right click option so want to remove it. i am running vista ultimate 64 bit.
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search on this forum turned up nothing... hard to believe no one asked this before on the forum.
google turned up a blank also.
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The logic is wrong. Go into Network Magic Options. On the General Tab, make sure that the following are not checked:
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Do not add commands to Explorer shortcut menus
Click OK and reboot the computer and see if gone.
I am running Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 on my Wireless Computer and I checked the Right-click menu and don't have the options, when they aren't checked.
thecreator - Running Network Magic version -5.5..9195.0-Pure0 on Windows XP Home Edition SP 3
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Alec:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Since it works in the other account here's a method to find out if there's another preference file in your library that may be the culprit.
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