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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: adwight on December 30, 2004, 02:37:58 pm

Title: How Do I?
Post by: adwight on December 30, 2004, 02:37:58 pm

Delete icons on my desktop that won't be deleted(but pressing delete while selecting them), or dragged into the Recycle Bin?

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Stealth on December 30, 2004, 02:40:26 pm

huh?

so you have icons you want to delete, but when you try, what happens?  does it say it deleted it, but it's still there?  does it say "this file is in use and cannot be deleted" or what?

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Hippo on December 30, 2004, 02:41:06 pm

did you try in a dos prompt?

that can usually do it...

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Stealth on December 30, 2004, 02:44:45 pm

yeah try rebooting, or you could try dos, as was mentioned.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Grimloq on December 30, 2004, 02:46:13 pm

*snicker* that happens to me sometimes. especially with font files after i try to install them (and they already are installed)

just wait a few days... eventually itll delete normally.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Solatar on December 30, 2004, 02:47:26 pm

Is it an AOL icon? I had trouble with one a few years ago on and older machine...it appears that it actually installed itself on the desktop instead of using a shortcut.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Hippo on December 30, 2004, 02:49:20 pm

I can delete my AOL icons... :nervous:


[moronic]Its fun deleting them![/moronic]

:p

Title: How Do I?
Post by: adwight on December 30, 2004, 02:57:32 pm

They're icons that say like Poker, Internet, stuff like that, which I don't want on there, and when I select them and press delete or try and drag them over, nothing happens and they don't move.
I don't know how to use DOS, so could you give me the commands and whatnot.(I'm sounding so noob right now:nervous: .)

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Liberator on December 30, 2004, 04:01:37 pm

Oh, so you've been installing porn software and you don't want you're parents to know...

Title: How Do I?
Post by: vyper on December 30, 2004, 04:06:26 pm

How helpful.

Anyway, try deleting them from safe mode?

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on December 30, 2004, 04:20:25 pm

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Originally posted by adwight
They're icons that say like Poker, Internet, stuff like that, which I don't want on there, and when I select them and press delete or try and drag them over, nothing happens and they don't move.
I don't know how to use DOS, so could you give me the commands and whatnot.(I'm sounding so noob right now:nervous: .)

Ah this happened to me just this morning, the icons arent realy there, right click and hit refresh.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Nico on December 30, 2004, 04:24:04 pm

What vyper said, works for me when I can't delete stuff for now apparent reason.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Solatar on December 30, 2004, 04:26:04 pm

Run Adaware ("www.lavasoft.com")? Might be some adware that puts the icons on your desktop after you delete 'em, but I dunno.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: adwight on December 30, 2004, 04:59:12 pm

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Originally posted by Liberator
Oh, so you've been installing porn software and you don't want you're parents to know...

I don't find Poker/Card Game/Bingo/Internet to be porno... But anyways, Ad-Aware did the trick.  Thanks guys.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Carl on December 30, 2004, 05:45:25 pm

if it comes back after you re-start, it means they have a backup installed somewhere, so you need to find that too.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on December 30, 2004, 08:53:04 pm

this thing will never go away without a clean format, i know.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Solatar on December 30, 2004, 08:56:52 pm

I've gotten rid of plenty of these without formatting my computer.

Of course, one time I just cut off the internet, and ran so many virus and adware/spyware scans it's not funny...

EDIT: I think it sometimes depends on the individual machine though.

EDIT2: Crappy firewalls don't help, hispeed internet is more prone than 56k from what I hear, etc.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on December 30, 2004, 09:28:41 pm

This exact one? then enlighten me

The icons are pastely colored right?

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Anaz on December 30, 2004, 10:01:09 pm

turn off active desktop for one...if they're "ghost" icons, that should be how they're getting in, and should be how to kill them.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Stealth on December 31, 2004, 12:29:13 am

aHA!!! i was waiting to see how long it would be before someone said "format"...

...format, to erase an icon, ... a little over-kill don't you think? ;)

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Solatar on December 31, 2004, 12:34:51 am

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Originally posted by FireCrack
This exact one? then enlighten me

The icons are pastely colored right?

Oh, not the exact same kind. I've just had icons before, but adwight said Adaware cleared his up, so I assumed it was like mine were.

You might have picked up some really nasty ones however...:p

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on December 31, 2004, 01:14:24 am

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/IconsSuck.jpg)

I've had these for like ever, every time they popped up i was able to remove them but they came back again, this time they're undeleteable.

Seems to be linked to a program called "PureFrag.exe"

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Stealth on December 31, 2004, 03:22:54 am

PureFrag.exe eh?  hehehehehe

hahahahaha

based on your knowledge of the Descent series, what do you think PUREFRAG.exe will do to your compuer once executed? :D :D j/k

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on December 31, 2004, 04:03:14 am

hmm.. i asume turn my computer in to a mindles killing robot?

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 31, 2004, 06:20:48 am

I'm with Crack. I say a format is in order! Burn the mother down!

Title: How Do I?
Post by: adwight on December 31, 2004, 08:42:22 am

Quote

Originally posted by FireCrack
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/IconsSuck.jpg)

I've had these for like ever, every time they popped up i was able to remove them but they came back again, this time they're undeleteable.

Seems to be linked to a program called "PureFrag.exe"

It's those exact same ones, but they haven't come back yet...

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on December 31, 2004, 08:53:57 pm

They will, i assure you.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: adwight on December 31, 2004, 08:58:43 pm

I need to get rid of these things asap, because my dad is getting pissed off and is starting to think I've been doing stuff I shouldn't, so could someone help me step by step to get rid of this problem?

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Taristin on December 31, 2004, 09:20:00 pm

First, run spyware and adware checks... And then you should go to the installed programs section in the control panel, and look for something that's out of place...

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on January 01, 2005, 03:21:23 am

i have this damn two IEXPLORE.exe's virus, i have no idea how i'm gonna get rid of it.

yay! fixxed by searhing registry and deleting all instances of funklicensesize.exe as well as iexplore.exe whenever the two are together!


And then ctrl+alt+dl end task the iexplores (took a few tries before they stopped coming back)


the undeleteable icons disapeared now i'm clean (i hope)

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Knight Templar on January 01, 2005, 03:32:16 am

My Computer > (C: ) > Right-click > Format

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on January 01, 2005, 03:41:24 am

(C:)

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Knight Templar on January 01, 2005, 03:42:12 am

*was to lazy to put in the necesary characters to avoid a smilie face*

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Sandwich on January 01, 2005, 03:58:11 am

And for Pete's sake quit using Internet Exploder!








<------- :nod:

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on January 01, 2005, 04:15:45 am

I'm not, it's a virus.


I actualy just deleted internet explorer from my machine becasue it was what was making the icons come. Now the icons come and theres nothing i can "end task" to make them go away for a little while :(


hmm... found

axis mapi.exe

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on January 01, 2005, 04:41:26 am

Great, jsut great. I got totaly rid of the icons, but now thertes a process called "system" that takes up innane amounts of cpu nad memory, the swap space has eaten up alll the free space on drive C.

Anyways, unless somone can come up with a bright idea to get me out of this mess i'm gonna have to format.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Knight Templar on January 01, 2005, 06:46:39 am

:D:D:D

Title: How Do I?
Post by: adwight on January 01, 2005, 09:02:50 am

FireCrack, thank you for helping me get rid of them.  They did come back after AdAware, but getting rid of the IExplore.exe in CTR+ALT+DEL got rid of them.  Thanks.

Oh ya and sandwich, I do use Firefox, its just for a while my parents wouldn't use it, so instead they used IE. :D

Firecrack, I also have the same process, but it dosn't take up any system resources...

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Liberator on January 01, 2005, 02:15:12 pm

Have you run Spybot and Adaware(both)?
Download AVG and run a detailed virus check.  It may take several hours.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on January 01, 2005, 07:37:39 pm

Well, i did reformat. unfortunately my windows CD was "damaged beyond repair" so now i'm re-obtaining windows.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Liberator on January 02, 2005, 01:06:11 am

Is that "obtaining" or going to the store to buy a new copy?:D

I don't see a problem if you already own what you're downloading and you're DLing because of technical issue related to the piss poor media the companies expect to last forever.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Knight Templar on January 02, 2005, 03:09:17 pm

Seems to me he made it pretty clear.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: Liberator on January 02, 2005, 07:30:07 pm

I was being...sarcastic.

Title: How Do I?
Post by: FireCrack on January 02, 2005, 07:32:25 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Liberator
Is that "obtaining" or going to the store to buy a new copy?:D

I don't see a problem if you already own what you're downloading and you're DLing because of technical issue related to the piss poor media the companies expect to last forever.

Yeah, i'm "obtaining"

M$ problably has a thing where you can orgder a replacement CD, posibly with no proof of purchase whatsoever but that probably takes 6-8 weeks*









*see months