Help Please! - Deleting annoying file on desktop

[renath.utopian]

Hello there,
wondering if anyone can help me with this..
On my girlfriend's computer (running Windows XP Professional with
Service Pack 2) - she has two files on her desktop that have been there
for - ages, and I had trouble trying to get rif of them - below is a
screenshot of the desktop with the two files and the properties of one
of them shown : -

<a
href="http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitledhgiuhgih1db.jpg"
target="_blank"><img
src="http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7540/untitledhgiuhgih1db.th.jpg"
border="0" alt="Image Hosted at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>

if the html above doesn't show a thumbnail, then to see the image (or
download it) go to ->
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7540/untitledhgiuhgih1db.th.jpg

Anyway, Windows seems to think that the file is 0bytes in size, and
also, when we tried to delete it, it says that the file is either
running or in use by another program when it obviously is not, I
checked the task manager to see processes running - and even restarted
my computer but can't seem to figure out why windows is saying so - and
yet, ironically, the file is 'apparently' 0 bytes in size. Please let
me know how I can get rid of these eyesores on the desktop.
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps out,
Regards,
- Raj

 

[Stubbo_of_Oz]

Hello there,
wondering if anyone can help me with this..
On my girlfriend's computer (running Windows XP Professional with
Service Pack 2) - she has two files on her desktop that have been there
for - ages, and I had trouble trying to get rif of them - below is a
screenshot of the desktop with the two files and the properties of one
of them shown : -

<a
href="http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitledhgiuhgih1db.jpg"
target="_blank"><img
src="http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7540/untitledhgiuhgih1db.th.jpg"
border="0" alt="Image Hosted at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>

if the html above doesn't show a thumbnail, then to see the image (or
download it) go to ->
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7540/untitledhgiuhgih1db.th.jpg

Anyway, Windows seems to think that the file is 0bytes in size, and
also, when we tried to delete it, it says that the file is either
running or in use by another program when it obviously is not, I
checked the task manager to see processes running - and even restarted
my computer but can't seem to figure out why windows is saying so - and
yet, ironically, the file is 'apparently' 0 bytes in size. Please let
me know how I can get rid of these eyesores on the desktop.
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps out,
Regards,
- Raj

Have you tried booting into safe mode and deleting from there?

 

[Andrew Bailey]

Hi,

download and install this program...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4660

rightclick the offending files and select "Unlocker" from the context menu.

Hope that helps

Andy

 

[VeldorzVizzerd]

Thanks y'all for the help - used the program Andy suggested from
majorgeeks, was a major help ^^ - cheers
have a good 1,
- Raj