16th April 2009, 11:22 PM
Restarting the computer is sometimes needed as well.
Beyond that, reinstalling windows would be pretty drastic. I'd first create another profile and browse your directory tree to your main profile's desktop folder, and delete it from there. Beyond that, there's one way to get around all of that, and that's to access that same desktop folder from another OS. DOS won't do the trick on NTFS disks, so you could "just" load up the hard disk as a secondary on another machine, and then delete it that way.
That message does suggest a restart would clear it up though.
Beyond that, reinstalling windows would be pretty drastic. I'd first create another profile and browse your directory tree to your main profile's desktop folder, and delete it from there. Beyond that, there's one way to get around all of that, and that's to access that same desktop folder from another OS. DOS won't do the trick on NTFS disks, so you could "just" load up the hard disk as a secondary on another machine, and then delete it that way.
That message does suggest a restart would clear it up though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)