Remove Icons from desktop

[Virgilb]

I downloaded a game and the download placed a game icon on my desktop. After
I played the game I deleated the game and removed the program from my PC
without any problems. However the icon remained on my desktop and I went to
the help section and found instructions on how to remove icons from my
desktop by going to my "Personalization" and clicked on the left pane and got
the change desktop window but the game icon was not there. Now I have an icon
for the game on my desktop and don't know how to remove it. I even tried to
click on the icon and drag it to the trash bin icon but I get a notice popup
that said the file cannot be found (I supposed thats because I deleted the
program from my PC). How to I get this icon off my PC DESKTOP? Any help
greatly appreciated.....

 

[Jane C]

Hi,

Right-click on your Desktop, and select 'Refresh'. The offending icon
should then be gone.

 

[Mick Murphy]

If it i still there, right-click on the icon>delete.

 

[Virgilb]

Thanks Jane C, That did the trick, appreciate the reply.

 

[Virgilb]

Thanks Mick, I forgot to add that I tried that at first. But Janes advise
helped me out. Thanks for you help also....

 

[Nick-s]

I have the same problem, I installed the "phoenix RC demo", and then
unninstalled it from add remove programs, unfortunately its left a shrtcut
behind on the desktop.

it doesnt vanish if I refresh the desktop, and if I click on it, or select
it in any way, explorer hangs. So I cant delete it, or at least not directly.

further, its not in my desktop folder under c:\users\me\desktop, so I cant
delete it from there either!

Anyone have any ideas?
I'd prefer to be rid of the dead icon.

 

[Questor]

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Hi, I also have a dead icon. shedder and it will not go. refresh does
not work, right click there is no delete. drag and drop i get a black
circle with a line through it. goto desktop cant delete it there. so
annoying. go to reg edit. be carefull in there can knacker system if you
delete the wrong thing. cant find the problem, am going to try to
install shedder again if i can find where it came from then uninstall it
to see if thet does it. dead icons are a headache.
any clever people out there know what im babbling on about. Thanks

I had a problem like yours with an icon I made myself for a program by
right-clicking the executable itself and using the "Send To ..." to put
it on the desktop. When I uninstalled the program it left the icon on
the desktop. I couldn't remove it no matter what I did. I just kept
getting told by Vista 'I can't find this program; it must have been
moved; boo hoo'.

What finally got rid of it (don't laugh) was to right-click it and
choose "Add to whatever_the_icons_name_was.zip". When it tried to add
to a ZIP file, the ZIP processor told me 'why are you here? I can't
find anything to ZIP'. As soon as I clicked the OK from that dialog
box, the desktop icon disappeared!

I have NO idea if this will work for you, but since that time I have
successfully deleted several orphan desktop icons.

Questor