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- From: schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Can't delete an icon
- Keywords: can't delete an icon, readonly
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.095348.10417@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 09:53:48 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.000608.27738@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <257@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> <bwiersema.26@bss2.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Originator: schmiher@hphalle8f.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- In article <bwiersema.26@bss2.umd.edu>, bwiersema@bss2.umd.edu (Brian Wiersema) writes:
- |> Problem:
- |> >>I have an icon on my desktop that I can not get rid of. Here is how I
- |> >>created it.
- |> Horst responds:
- |> >Finally I succeded by:
- |> >1. Moving it onto A:\ by:
- |> >2. Moving it to a subdirectory on A: the same way as above
- |> >3. Deleting that directory (I don't remember which way)
- |>
- |> Well, my undeletable icon is a network printer icon that refuses to moved to
- |> any other folder/drive/directory. IBM-OS2 Tech Support was stumped, too.
- |> Their suggestion (other than Alt-F1): open a shadow of the system clock and
- |> move it on top of the bugger. :)
- |>
- |> Any better ideas?
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- I've had this problems, too. Horst's trick worked for me.
- Note: do not drag the icon. Instead open the context menu,
- select Move. Then determine the target location manually.
- (Sorry, I can't tell you the appropriate option's label of the english
- version). The Move button should then be accessible. Push it
- and the dammned thing will leave your desktop. If this has worked,
- you might like to see your old friend in the target drive folder
- before you reformat the diskette...
-