How do I get rid of an icon from my desktop?

[apollard]

You asked...you get an answer. Total Nerd Alert (and you guys thought my writings on Evolution were long...this is a subject I REALLY understand!)
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Clear as mud?

Well, now I've learned my one thing for today. Time to go home :ecit

 

[Anonymous]

Holy crud, we need a nerd alert siren for threads like this..........and I started it mg

Where can a guy/gal go and get any question answered.......and quickly to boot?
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The Fix, that's where!

 

[buening]

Definitely ballsy to use the DOS delete function, but if you are in that particular directory and is only one file starting with that name then you are good to go. Format C is always fun in DOS :craz

 

[AtlantaSteve]

Find the file you want to whack and type del filename and hit enter.

Let me point out this specifically would not have worked in Mark's case. By providing an un-wildcarded file name, DOS would have had the same problem Windows had. The filename would have been illegal (IIRC, it ended with a dot, but had no extension...illegal in both DOS and Windows) and it would have reported back 0 files deleted. It was paramount that I use the wildcarding feature in the delete command to make sure the file got picked up. The fact that there was a dot at the end then became irrelevant, because it still matched the first three characters of the filename.

Make sense?

 

[apollard]

Make sense?

Yes. I'm beginning to think I could be a geek. :scar

 

[RyanG85]

:wi it made sense to me....

 

[Sluggo]

Let me point out this specifically would not have worked in Mark's case. By providing an un-wildcarded file name, DOS would have had the same problem Windows had. The filename would have been illegal (IIRC, it ended with a dot, but had no extension...illegal in both DOS and Windows) and it would have reported back 0 files deleted. It was paramount that I use the wildcarding feature in the delete command to make sure the file got picked up. The fact that there was a dot at the end then became irrelevant, because it still matched the first three characters of the filename.

Make sense?

/u