Vista - Re: Can't delete a video file from desktop

Hi I have the same problem can you tell me how you ended explorer.exe
process and restarted it?
thanks


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On Feb 7, 2:52*pm, zombie856 <gu...@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:You can end Explorer.exe in your Taks Manager.
To do this, Press CTRL+ALT+DEL then click Start Task Manager.
When the Windows Taks Manager window opens, Click the Processes tab.
Find Explorer.exe and choose End Process.
Once it is shut down, click File, New Task (Run...), type:
explorer.exe and click OK. (Note: This is done while still in Task
Manager)..
This will restart Explorer.exe.

Well this worked for me:

Go to start

search for this:
shell:desktop

open it and delete the file

alternatively if the file doesnt appear there search for
shell:common desktop

and delete

u cud also try changing the extension of the file..though it dint work for me


tc
best of luck

I couldn't find any different way to resolve this issue...

The way it worked for me was as follows:

1) Press CTRL+ALT+Del and then click on "Task Manager";

2) Go to the "Processes" tab and end the process "explorer.exe";

3) Go to the tab "Programs" and click "New Task". Type "cmd" (without the quotes, obviously) on the box and press "Enter".

4) You should see the MS-DOS prompt C:\Users\Your Name\>

5) Type "cd desktop" (again, without quotes) and press "Enter";

6) Type "dir *.exe" (no quotes) and press Enter. A file tree with all the .exe files will appear. Find the one you want to delete and then type:

del the_file_you_want_to_delete.exe

7) Type exit (the black dos prompt windows will close)

8) Go back to Task Manager and click "New Task". Then, type "explorer.exe" and press Enter. Your desktop will appear again (hopefully, without the file).

Note: Sometimes, you can delete .exe files from your desktop "simply" browsing your Windows Explorer and deleting from there. However, there is some bug that won't let you do it most times. If this doesn't work, try the steps above which will work for sure.

You can try a reinstall as well. It seems that this "Windows philosophy" which tells you to "format when there is a problem" is very true. There is no fix to this as far as I am concerned and Microsoft doens't even seem to be aware of this. As this issues doesn't come up as a "system error", Vista doesn't ask you to send a report to MS. Therefore, this is a bug that will always be a bug (unless a few thousand people report this error manually).

Also, I am thinking that it has something to do with the shortcut overlay key, on Windows' registry. I have added a key to the registry and the problem appeared (I can't be bothered to undo the changes). If that is the case, MS will not consider this as an error, as there was a change made to the registry deliberately.