Jackson <jacXkdinsss@hotXmail.com.invalid> wrote on Mon, 31 Dec 2007:
>On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:51:51 +0000, Nightowl <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
>>I'd suggest deleting your bin to see if this clears the problem (Windows
>>will recreate it for you on the next reboot). The easiest way to do this
>>is:
>>
>//Clipped out instructions to save space. I'd like to say that those
>instructions are probably the clearest instructions I have seen. I
>wish MS would hire you to write their stuff.//
Why thank you, Jack, what a nice thing to say and much appreciated. I'm
only sorry you didn't get the chance to try it out and see whether the
instructions really were clear
<big snip>
>I can not move the damn thing back into the recycle bin! I can cut
>and paste it only to the desktop and from the desktop the only place I
>seem to be able to move it to is the Unused Desktop Shortcuts folder.
>And that's where it is now. I think I'd better just leave it there.
Well, it seems it's not doing any harm there, at least. But there are a
couple more easy things you could try -- don't give up just yet! I have
an idea that there may be something odd in the name that is causing
Windows not to find it; perhaps an embedded space, a zero rather than an
O or similar. Here are two ways of getting around that, easiest first:
[1] Open a Command window and navigate to the parent folder (your Unused
Desktop Shortcuts folder at the moment, I think) of the offending
Vocaberse. At the prompt type:
dir /x
You should see two sets of names; one is the full file/folder name and
the other the short name, usually the first six letters of the name
followed by a ~ and a number. Yours might be VOCABE~1, for example. Try
removing it using this short name, e.g.
RD VOCABE~1 <enter>
If that doesn't work, try this:
[2] In Explorer navigate to the parent folder of the undeletable folder.
Leave the Explorer window open.
Open a Command Prompt and type the partial command:
RD "\\?\ (notice the quote mark in front of the slashes) but don't press
Enter yet. . .
In the open Explorer window grab the bad folder and drag it to the
Command Prompt and drop it at the end of the incomplete command.
Complete it by adding a quote mark at the end of the command. Make sure
you *are* at the end of the line, in case there is a trailing space in
the name. Then press Enter.
NB: If, when you drop the folder name on the Command line, it appears
with quotes around it, delete the first and don't add another at
the end, so that you only have one complete set around the whole
command, otherwise you will get a syntax error.
Good luck, happy New Year (I'm already 3 hours into 2008!) and thanks
again for the kind words.
--
Nightowl