Trying to remove item in favs

[Sazar]

basically it seems someone (one of my room-mates) used my computer while I was @ uni and there is now a item on my favorite's list that I can't remove...

C:\Documents and Settings\Sazar\Favorites is the path and when I click on delete... it basically says Cannot Delete file : Cannot find source or disk

not sure what I can do to remove this... I have run both ad-aware and spybot and they have afaik removed everything there was to remove and immunized everything there was to immunize...

any help would be appreciated...

 

[j79zlr]

you can disable two things in Group policy [assuming XP Pro]. User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar, here are the entries and the reg changes [for manual or XP Home].

# Do not use the search-based method when reolving shell shortcuts

* KEY: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
* DWORD: NoResolveSearch = 1

# Do not use the tracking-based method when resolving shell shortcuts

* KEY: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
* DWORD: NoResolveTrack = 1

Or you can change the properties of the shortcut to point to something thats there.

 

[Sazar]

I edited it to read item now since it does not appear to be a shortcut...

I tried editing it in everywhich way but no changes hold...

I will try the registry edits in a bit and see if that helps

-edit- those registry keys are not in my registry 😕

 

[j79zlr]

No you will have to add them, and I would think a restart is needed as well.

 

[Sazar]

😱

I'll wait for a bit and see if anyone else drops some other pearls of wisdom.. I would rather not edit my registry unless I have to...

if nothing else comes by I'll give it a go...

thanks m8... 🙂

 

[j79zlr]

sure, its not that dangerous, well as long as you dont .... well just backup 🙂

 

[j79zlr]

Here ya go, easy to merge regfiles.

The add regfile:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoResolveTrack"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveSearch"=dword:00000001

The subtract regfile:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoResolveTrack"=-
"NoResolveSearch"=-

 

[Sazar]

made changes and no go 🙁

same problem... same message... can't remove since source or disk not found...

 

[j79zlr]

damn, I figured that would do it. You can always try the old notepad fix.

 

[Mainframeguy]

basically it seems someone (one of my room-mates) used my computer ...

Moral of the story - keep a password and share it at your peril? 🙄

 

[Sazar]

damn, I figured that would do it. You can always try the old notepad fix.

heh... tried that but its not allowing me to change it..

I can find the file and all but I can't do anything with it...

 

[Sazar]

Moral of the story - keep a password and share it at your peril? 🙄

I just re-formatted my computer...

because I had just reformatted it I had not installed any pop-up blockers or any AV software @ the time which would have helped catch this problem...

-edit-

checked through and seems some program called global dialer was installed... I am not sure if this little POS item is related though... i took the necessary steps to remove glbal dialer (would not have affected me much since I dont have dialup) but I still can't remove the item...

 

[SPeedY_B]

Have you tried to delete it via a command prompt?

 

[Sazar]

yah I did speedy... actually thats the way I try to delete most apps/items that I can't through windows but I get a similar error message... ie can't find the item..

its almost like a ghost icon in my fav's folder 🙁

 

[SPeedY_B]

Hmm. Tried killing explorer then deleting it?

 

[j79zlr]

Hmm. Tried killing explorer then deleting it?

Or just install linux, that solves most windows problems 🙂

 

[Sazar]

I am just gonig to reformat... I'll ttyl lads.. thanks for trying 🙂

 

[SPeedY_B]

Booooo! 😀

 

[Sazar]

well it was getting frustrating 🙂

some dialer apps kept popping up from time to time and what not..

anyways the format is complete... just installing stuff now 🙂

 

[SPeedY_B]

Well, put a password on this time, and WinKey+L every time you leave the machine. 😀