Deleteing Destop Icon

[Guest]

Hey guys im new to Vista and haveing problems. I downloaded a program from a
cd a friend gave me and he gave me the rong one its like a 100 word icon name
on my destop and im trying to delete it and i can because it allways says its
to long to delete to the garbage bin and when i try and rename it to make it
smaller it just says its to long. If any one knows how to help me please do
thnaks.

 

[dean-dean]

In Start Menu\Programs\Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and choose
Run as Administrator. At the prompt, type:

cd desktop

Press Enter. Then type:

dir /x

Press Enter. In the list presented find the short name for
toolongofaname.ico, for example, toolon~1.ico. Then type:

del toolon~1.ico

Press Enter.