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Delete Icon from desktop

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by cubbella

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r-click to delete and all I get is Access is Denied.Drag to recycle bin and same thing only now I get Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currenly in use. and an error occurred applying attributes to the file. It is telling me that it is 119bytes. and 4.00kb on disk.
I can't find it in add-remove.I can't find type of file in my search.Type of file:internet shortcut. I need help with this one.

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by shaman141083

Although your question is not clear..
I would suggest you to contact the technicians.
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Give it a try...
Thanxs

by asher2jk

I recommend this for its ease of use.
Google Unlocker and the first result would take you to it.

by seanferd

In case there are characters or something in the name which confuse the OS.

by cubbella

I have tried everything to get rid of this Icon, it came with a game and from that add-delete I removed the game but the Icon didn't get removed, I did have everything except painting that part of my screen.:)

by l-mo

What type of icon is it? If you have an infection it could be the root of your problem.

More importantly, Right-Click gives you "access denied" sounds like the machine is locked down in some form.

A simple way to just remove a short cut is to boot into safe mode and use Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder location and delete it with a shift+del.

If you have an infection the fix will be specific to the particular bug.

Also, if you have the icon in the desktop folder of the All Users profile it will reappear at logon.

by npbatiller

It could be that the user that put the icon there is an administrator and you are logged on as a limited account user.

by 1bn0

If you have adminstrative rights to the machine. (not tryingto delete something out on the desktop by the IT Admin at work). THe ownership of the icon may have become corrupted.

If ti is NOONE can delete the icon until it is assigned an owner.

by medo35_2010

You can first check the security of the file , you should have the administrative priviliges to delete it.To do this:
1-Right click on the file
2-Select the security tab.
3-Select the username and then select all permissions.
4-click ok.

by cubbella

I got it off my desktop. I had to go into my rootkit program and delete from it. I am the only one on this computer and now one can get access but me so it was something that I did wrong. but it is now gone and I am so glad about it. I did some of all your suggestions and they helped me to understand my mistakes Thanks all.

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