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re: Desktop file icons that just won't go away
Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 9:02 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19379 messages posted)
If you really want a clean looking desktop, just right click on the desktop, select
Arrange Icons by..., then remove the checkmark by Show Desktop Items.
As an aside, if you were using FAT32 rather than NTFS, getting rid of those files
would be easy.
On Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 7:38 am, crowebar wrote:
>I'm very anal retentive and insist that my desktop is clear of clutter and unwanted
>junk. That being said I have three objects on the desktop that seem impossible
to
>remove. They seem to have randomly generated names, no extensions, and the properties
>list them simply as "files". I get the feeling that they may have been generated
>by the AdobeCleanup process that runs with Acrobat 8, but that's just a guess.
In
>order to save some time I'll list what I've tried to do so far:
>
>Simply Delete them - "Cannot delete file. Cannot read from the source file or disk"
>
>Rename them - "Cannot rename file. Cannot read from the source file or disk"
>
>Restart in Safe-mode - Same problems
>
>Killbox - "File Error - File does not seem to exist"
>
>Move them somewhere else on the damn computer so I don't have to look at them -
They
>won't move.
>
>I think that's everything I've tried. I recently reformatted and would really prefer
>not to have to do it again, but I'm obsessive enough that if I can't get rid of
them
>I would probably do that.
>
>Any help? Anyone?
>
>BTW - I'm running XP Pro with SP2 installed. Thanx
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