The .EXE that just won't go away!

[LocKStocK]

Not too long ago, I downloaded a program, something to do with DVD
encoding I think. Anyway, I decided this program was useless and went to
delete it. Every file was deleted except the .EXE. Now it won't go!
It comes up with "Cannot Delete PTD: Program is being used by another
program or person"
Please help as its just sitting there on my desktop serving no purpose.

Cheers.

 

[Perris Calderon]

try doing that from safe mode

 

[yoyo]

Did you delete or uninstall that program?

Are you sure it is the actual exe file sitting on your desktop?

It may be a desktop namespace extension.

Look in the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace
if there is a subkey corresponding to that program.

Export the key before you change anything.

 

[Tuffgong4]

if you can't get rid of it with the suggestions above...go to the command prompt and manually delete it from there

example
C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Desktop\del name of program.exe