Can't delete a desktop icon in W8.1

lew wrote:
On 2015-07-19, Nil wrote:
On 19 Jul 2015, Rebel1 wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

I did try that as well as pressing F5. Didn't delete it.
Rule of thumb #1: If Windows does something unexpected and you have not
the time, knowledge, or inclination to figure out what's really
wrong... reboot the computer. 90% of the time the symptom will go away.
If you had done that your issue would have been solved in less time
than it took you to ask the question in the first place.

I think your problem was a display issue. The file was actually gone,
but the desktop didn't update itself to reflect that. Similar things
happen to me sometimes with dialog boxes and pop-up balloon notices -
the boxes linger even though the notice is actually gone. Sometimes it
obscures other active things on the screen. Sometimes shifting the
focus to other windows make it disappear. Other times I have to log out
and back in or reboot to make it go away.

Wrong. I have an icon that recurs at times & cannot be deleted nor was
there an item in the properties for deletion. Rebooting can get rid of
the icon but it gets resurrected again sometime later, could be many
days.

The offending icon is the icon for "homegroup"; no reason for it to
appear at any time since I didn't touch the item on the control panel.
I have given up & just leave it there as an eyesore; cannot even move
the homegroup icon to another location.

What happens if you delete (or rename to be safe), in the appropriate
windows folder the icon it corresponds to?

On 20 Jul 2015, lew
wrote in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

On 2015-07-19, Nil wrote:

Rule of thumb #1: If Windows does something unexpected and you
have not the time, knowledge, or inclination to figure out what's
really wrong... reboot the computer. 90% of the time the symptom
will go away. If you had done that your issue would have been
solved in less time than it took you to ask the question in the
first place.

I think your problem was a display issue. The file was actually
gone, but the desktop didn't update itself to reflect that.
Similar things happen to me sometimes with dialog boxes and
pop-up balloon notices - the boxes linger even though the notice
is actually gone. Sometimes it obscures other active things on
the screen. Sometimes shifting the focus to other windows make it
disappear. Other times I have to log out and back in or reboot to
make it go away.

Wrong.

Your exception in no way proved me "wrong". I stand by everything I
said.


I have an icon that recurs at times & cannot be deleted
nor was there an item in the properties for deletion. Rebooting
can get rid of the icon but it gets resurrected again sometime
later, could be many days.

The offending icon is the icon for "homegroup"; no reason for it
to appear at any time since I didn't touch the item on the control
panel. I have given up & just leave it there as an eyesore; cannot
even move the homegroup icon to another location.