When developing my game, testing a few things out here and there, renaming the app etc, I've seem to have "shortcuts" in the emulator to dead applications.
Any ideas on how to remove those ?

try running
emulator.exe -wipe-data
in the command line inside the tools folder in the sdk.

Thanks, that did the trick. Not only did it remove old installed apps, it only cleared the SharedPrefrences which was another problem.

np.