I get very peeved when I have many icons on my desktop. Esp. Ones that I cannot delete. >.> So...I am begging for some one's assistance here.

Here's the problem:

You see the file at the bottom right corner? Yeah...that's the little evil bastard that I'm trying to delete.
Here.

When I try to delete that file, this message shows up: Here

I just need to know how to delete this file and I will be a happy lad with a less cluttered desktop. 8D

If it helps here are the properties of this thingy: here

Oh and I tried hiding it and moving it to a different folder, it doesn't work.

I can't live with this stupid icon on my desktop. XP


Please and Thanks.

After going Right Click > Properties try clicking read-only then try and delete it.

dry dragging the file into the recycle bin, then emptying it... iv done that before and it sometimes works...

do whatever marc says to.

Try to reboot to safe mode and delete it from there, or even better if you have other OS boot to it and delete it from there (live cds/dvds are ideal for things like this)

Ok, what OS do you have? Is that Linux?

Windows - judging from Recycle Bin

Close all the other programs/things you may have running. Try renaming the file and then deleting (That could still not work, but I thought you may give it a shot since that's what you gotta do to delete some viruses (is that a word?).

If that doesn't work:

I don't know the proper translation of these things so I took a screen cap to show you:



When you go to Properties > Advanced, Make sure that little thingy at the bottom (that for me it says "cifrar contenidos para..", for you it's gonna be the same except it's gonna be in english) is unchecked.
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I suck at explaining things, heh.

SQUEEEE!!!

Thanks you guys. XD i used most of your tips. ;D

I finally have that pesky icon off of my desktop. ^____________________^

For future reference this is probably better in troubleshooting.

But your problem seems to be solved.