Deleting Undeletable Files

[smeezekitty]

but it may fix the shortcut file accos

[mattlander09]

@Broni - I've tried that already. What happens is that, though the button appears in the right-click menu for other items, for some reason it doesn't for the specific .exe. Leads me to believe it's a problem with the context menu, although why it doesn't work only for the troubled file is beyond me - it works fine with others.

@smeezekitty - I've tried system restore for the shortcut thing, but the fact is that I didn't realize I had this problem before I cleaned out my restore points, so, uh, yeah. It didn't fix anything.

So, does it sound like I'm doomed to have a random file on my computer and have half of the shortcuts not work? The file itself is less than 1mb, although the .lnk thing is pretty annoying.

[Karnac]

You might try FileAssassin in the Malwarebytes program...it's under "more tools".

[mattlander09]

@Karnac: It doesn't have permission to "assassinate" the file.

I've managed to set the .lnk file back to Unknown Application, but now the shortcuts are completely useless. None of them work. Forgive me for my lack of computer knowledge, but is it NOT supposed to be "Unkown App"?

[mattlander09]

Ahh... some procedure I did here screwed up my computer even more. Now when I right click an .exe, I don't have the Open, Run, or Run as Administrator buttons in the context menu.

Yeah....

I think I'm gonna scan my computer for viruses once more.

Help?

Now the weird .exe file and the .lnk problems are the least of my worries. My computer is incapable of running a file directly from the .exe.

This is getting ridiculous.

[kpac]

Read the information posted here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html
Then start a new topic here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?action=post;board=7.0, refer to this topic, and post the three logs.

Have you done this already?