Cannot Remove an Icon From Desktop

[Milanodan]

The icon is for a weather report for my area. Cannot remove, delete or rename it. W7 says it doesn't exist! Help.

 

[Brink]

Hello Milanodan, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Sometimes refreshing (F5) the desktop or restarting the computer will remove a ghost icon.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[richc46]

If the above does not help, try dragging it to my documents and then delete. That does not work try dragging to my documents and dragging, dragging to to desktop, then dragging to recycle bin. It happened to me once, delete did not work dragging did.

 

[Milanodan]

Tried all of these, but nothing works. All I get is a thing telling me the icon doesn't exist. Frustrating-----.

 

[richc46]

Its actually a small, but annoying problem. Rather than trying to solve the problem, when you could be enjoying. Can you start a new folder in your documents, call it junk or whatever and drag the icon there. It will be out of sight and you can start enjoying a great OS, again.

Edit Just had a thought, go to search in start menu. Put the name of the icon, you might be able to find the source and delete that.

 

[Jacee]

The icon is for a weather report for my area

Did this come with an application that you downloaded? If it did, uninstall the program, then delete the folder and Icon. You may have to go into 'safe' mode to delete both.

 

[Milanodan]

Tried to reboot in safe mode by using the F8 key. Didn't work (unless I'm in safe mode right now and can't tell--W2000 made it easy to tell if you were in safe mode).

Anyway, after the reboot the icon is GONE!!! I thought I had tried rebooting it before but maybe I hadn't.

Thanks to all. I'll go click on some "middle icons" now.

 

[Jacee]

Thanks for reporting back

 

[Brink]

Milanodan,

I'm happy to hear that you got rid of it now. Thank you for posting back with your results.

 

[marionso]

Hi,

i have 2 white icons on my desktop and i can not move or delete them
I think this has to do with webpages icon i accidenly wanted to put on my desktop
the names of the icons are
logo_profile_sn_facebook
logo_profile_sn_linkedin

please help me removing them
I have windows 7 and a HP laptop (bought 2 month ago :-( )

thanks [email protected]

 

[Hellriser]

Usually when you have single files that you can't delete use Unlocker. It's compatible with both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows. Install it, and in the right click menu a Unlock will appear while right clicking a file. Click that and from there you'll know what to do.

But take care, prior doing this, assure that the file you are erasing will not affect other programs or OS behaviors.

 

[marionso]

can not delete white icon from desktop

if i want to delete the icon i got the message
could not find this item
This is no longer located in C:\users\;;;;; verify the items location and try again

type:file
size:0 bytes
date modified 5/3/2011

thanks for any tips
Marion

 

[Hellriser]

Then it's a ghost icon and you must refer to the above posts.

 

[Orbital Shark]

if i want to delete the icon i got the message
could not find this item
This is no longer located in C:\users\;;;;; verify the items location and try again

type:file
size:0 bytes
date modified 5/3/2011

thanks for any tips
Marion

Hi, welcome to the forums

You may want to look at the advice I gave in another post regarding a similar option

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-...t-find-item-not-same-problem.html#post1275557

It may help