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RapedApe

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Re: Icon will not delete
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2006, 03:54:58 PM »
When you try to open what?
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Monty72

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Re: Icon will not delete
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2006, 04:09:37 PM »
The program were trying to delete.
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RapedApe

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Re: Icon will not delete
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2006, 04:18:03 PM »
Why are you trying to open it? We're trying to delete it, not open it.

Lemme try to break this down step by step for ya.

1. Start -> Run -> CMD
2. cd desktop
3. dir typing dir and hitting 'enter' will give you a list of all the files on you're desktop along with the extension find the one that says beatcraft and look at the end of it. You will see a '.' followed by three letters. That's called an extension.
4. cacls beatcraft.ext /p guest:n replace 'ext' with the extension that you should have discovered in the previous step.
5. Exit the command prompt and reboot your PC
6. Start -> Run -> CMD
7. cd desktop
8. del beatcraft.ext -y once again, replace 'ext' with the extension discovered in step 3

That should about do it.
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Monty72

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Re: Icon will not delete
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2006, 04:40:15 PM »
Sorry, I did what you said and it diding work. :-/
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Fed

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    Re: Icon will not delete
    « Reply #19 on: July 01, 2006, 05:05:53 PM »
    Use KillBox to BROWSE to find the file then select the delete on reboot option.
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    Monty72

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    Re: Icon will not delete
    « Reply #20 on: July 01, 2006, 05:29:47 PM »
    *censored*, still did'nt work.   [smiley=angry.gif]
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    Fed

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      Re: Icon will not delete
      « Reply #21 on: July 01, 2006, 05:32:23 PM »
      So what happened?
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      Monty72

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      Re: Icon will not delete
      « Reply #22 on: July 01, 2006, 05:37:42 PM »
      I did what you said and when I rebooted. The icon was stll there.
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      Fed

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        Re: Icon will not delete
        « Reply #23 on: July 01, 2006, 05:47:03 PM »
        What did you do after you selected delete on reboot and got the next screen up?
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        Monty72

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        Re: Icon will not delete
        « Reply #24 on: July 01, 2006, 05:55:49 PM »
        I when to exit, then rebooted my system.
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        Fed

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          Re: Icon will not delete
          « Reply #25 on: July 01, 2006, 06:08:06 PM »
          After you selected delete on reboot and got the next screen up did you think to add the file and then select process & reboot?
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          Monty72

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          Re: Icon will not delete
          « Reply #26 on: July 01, 2006, 07:59:24 PM »
          Yes, I did all that. Twice :-[
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            Re: Icon will not delete
            « Reply #27 on: July 01, 2006, 09:05:52 PM »
            Right click on the icon & check it's properties, what is it, a shortcut, a file, a directory?
            Are you trying to remove the whole beatcraft program or just this little poop on your desktop?
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            geneprof

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            Re: Icon will not delete
            « Reply #28 on: July 01, 2006, 09:14:28 PM »
            Have you tried reinstalling the program the icon is connected to? Or even just running the program? I once had a similar problem with an old version of the NetHack game, and reinstalling caused the "phantom" icon to disappear.
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              Re: Icon will not delete
              « Reply #29 on: July 01, 2006, 09:53:47 PM »
              OK, I just downloaded and installed beatcraft, it placed a shortcut on my desktop which I promptly deleted.
              Are you the only user on this machine, are you admin?
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