Vista - Deleting undeletable files

I recently downloaded a file for a program (design, Revit). The file did not
download fully, yet the icon of the file is still on my desktop. When I try
to delete it or send it to the Recycle Bin, the delete window comes up, but
nothing happens. Is there a different way to delete this? I cannot even
move it to a different folder to get it off the desktop.

Thanks!

This may help
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2...deletable.aspx


"pianofreak" wrote:

> I recently downloaded a file for a program (design, Revit). The file did not
> download fully, yet the icon of the file is still on my desktop. When I try
> to delete it or send it to the Recycle Bin, the delete window comes up, but
> nothing happens. Is there a different way to delete this? I cannot even
> move it to a different folder to get it off the desktop.
>
> Thanks!

Well, that gave me control over that specific folder, but I'm still unable to
delete the particular file....

I suppose you could try the 'old XP trick' of deleting it/them in safe mode.

"pianofreak" wrote:

> Well, that gave me control over that specific folder, but I'm still unable to
> delete the particular file....

"pianofreak" <pianofreak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5EDECA29-A81F-4B8E-B559-BEA040617DD2@microsoft.com...
>I recently downloaded a file for a program (design, Revit). The file did
>not
> download fully, yet the icon of the file is still on my desktop. When I
> try
> to delete it or send it to the Recycle Bin, the delete window comes up,
> but
> nothing happens. Is there a different way to delete this? I cannot even
> move it to a different folder to get it off the desktop.
>
> Thanks!

There's this http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081 yikes!

There are also free utilities around for this purpose like
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/

Lee

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:02:06 -0700, pianofreak <pianofreak@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Well, that gave me control over that specific folder, but I'm still unable to
>delete the particular file....

Try this: right-click on a blank area of the desktop and click Refresh. Sometimes an
icon remains on the desktop after the file itself has been deleted.

Doug M. in NJ

So none of these options worked. I decided to just uninstall the program
since I'm not going to be using it anymore. Oddly enough... that worked.
Why I didn't just try that in the first place... too stubborn? lol

Thank you all for your help! I greatly appreciate it!