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Undeletable desktop icons
Name: Fihnny Date: July 27, 2005 at 17:04:56 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP 2200+/768 m
Comment:
I have an icon that I can't delete from my desktop. It is a file that I unsuccessfully tried to download through Bittorrent (it's an episode of Lost). The file is zero bytes.
Whenever I try to delete this file from my desktop, a window appears to tell me that this file is being used by another program. I can't figure out which program is using it. Here's the running processes from my task manager:
firefox.exe svchost.exe (6 of them, actually) slserv.exe spoolsv.exe explorer.exe taskmgr.exe alg.exe lsass.exe services.exe winlogon.exe csrss.exe smss.exe System System Idle Process
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