File on desktop won't delete

Download and install Unlocker.

jackdelamare said:

fimble said:

Download and install Unlocker.

ESET's giving me a warning for that, saying it's Adware. Is it safe?

Yeah, It's perfectly safe, but it now has the proverbial optional toolbar in the installer. Just make sure you don't accept it! (I think it's Yahoo!).

EDIT. It's "Fully optional Bing or Quickstores toolbar depending on location."

HTH.

You may just have a high ascii character in the filename confusing the file manager. In that case there's a way to get rid of it that doesn't involve installing anything.

Try going to a command prompt, then navigating to your desktop folder. Once there do a dir /x to get the short filename. In this case try "dir /x t*.*" and you'll see the short filename of every file on your desktop starting with the letter T. It will look something like this:

05/09/2011 11:44 AM 4,056 REMNCL~1.VBS remnclient.vbs
03/30/2011 02:39 PM 1,238 REMOTE~2.LNK Remote Assistance.lnk
02/22/2011 11:07 AM 1,613 REMOTE~1.LNK Remote Desktop Connection.ln
02/22/2011 10:13 AM 1,592 RoyalTS.lnk
02/18/2011 02:21 PM 880 WINDOW~1.LNK Windows XP Mode.vmc - Shortc
ut.lnk
19 File(s) 5,541,680 bytes
6 Dir(s) 34,119,385,088 bytes free
C:\Users\bryanp\Desktop>

Only in your case you should see something like this:

02/18/2011 02:21 PM 0 Tony~1 Tony Scalzo's First Solo Album by Tony Scalzo —

If that was what you saw, you'd then type "del tony~1" and hit enter. If it works, that was your problem.

This issue can sometimes be caused by freespace errors:

Disk Check

Glad to have helped you.