Can't Delete Ghost Folder

What is that ?

If I type LIVE CD at yahoo, google, ask.com and more I find them. There are so many that I suggest you go with what you like.
Bob

Yes, you are correct, when I use another account to login, this ghost icon is gone.
The problem is I need use my current account to login my company network.

Ghost icon on desktop like this: http://i43.tinypic.com/5ofeww.jpg

After right click on the ghost icon: http://i44.tinypic.com/2icb4uh.jpg

You can use a Live CD or learn to use the command line to delete it. At least it's just an annoyance and does not appear to be anything more than that.
Bob

I build Live CD follow the "How to make windows XP live cd step by step guide" , but the CD doesn't work for my computer.

Anyone can help me to delete ghost icon ?

Dead end in my opinion. If you wanted XP why didn't you use HIREN'S? It at:
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

And it has that ready to use portable XP. It may still obey NTFS PERMISSIONS but as NTFS PERMISSIONS has been so widely documented and discussed I'll stop and repeat the following.

Next time try Ubuntu. You don't have to know Linux to use it.
Bob

Good news, my Live CD is working now.
But I don't know how to login my windows account, some one could help me ?

I just had to open Explorer (I'm making a brash assumption this is the XP Live CD) and find the user's home folder then the Desktop folder to delete the offending item.
Bob

Hi, bob,

If I not login my current account, this ghost icon will disappear.

In other words we are going to deeper waters.

To delete an item on a Desktop, that item is in one of two places (99.999% of the time) and that's the folder named Desktop in the user's home folder.

I would NEVER need to log into that account to do this delete.
Bob

if I login to my account,
the ghost icon in desktop image : http://i43.tinypic.com/27yu1pd.jpg.

If I login to the other account, the ghost icon will disappear. The image look like this:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2ngwvut.jpg

And all this is supposed to happen as each user has their own Desktop folder.

The problem is I can't find in my own desktop folder.
Anywhere else to story this ghost icon ?

You may be unable to get this fixed. Here we can open a command line to use the DIR /A command in the Desktop folder for more clues but I find folk need some mousified OS. Sure, we can do that. A Live XP CD is useless in this work!

That's why I use a Live CD with Ubuntu since no Linux knowledge is required plus it does not have the user learning NTFS permissions.

-> We have a lot of posts here and I've yet to see you try the usual Live CD.

http://johnsonyip.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/if-you-cant-delete-a-file-in-windows-you-can-always-boot-into-ubuntu-to-delete-it/

Is one of thousands of web pages about this. It's a shame this appears to not have been done.
Bob

dragging and dropping that icon into the recycle bin?

I try already, doesn't work.
Thanks.

Kicking and dragging to booting the Live CDs.

But look at how we can easily create this mess at
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6142_102-597989/can-t-delete-ghost-folder/?messageId=5482809&tag=rb_content;contentAux#message5482809

It's not like I'm making this stuff up to force folk to try Linux. Read
http://tips.oncomputers.info/archives2004/0401/2004-Jan-11.htm

It's an old page but the advice is still there for those that don't want to hit the command lines.
Bob

it's so simple to use a live cd for this stuff . You should give it a try . Put the live disc into the disc drive,don't install it but run as a Live CD, click on the Home File (Ubuntu if you're using it) , click on user, choose user , click on desktop, click on file or icon you wish to remove and send to recycle bin, empty recycle bin, close the program, remove disc and restart Windows. It's pretty easy

Since one account does not show this file anomaly, and the other one does, could be issues with the user account in question; have you tried to create a new separate user account with the same user credentials (admin or standard user)? You've not said what this account is, admin or standard.

Creating a new user account could solve this issue and more. Could be worth a try.

If it works, then migrate all data from the old to the new, and use that one to login to your company network. Do not delete the old account until you are satisfied that the new account works as it should and all data is brought over.

BTW, where are your corporate IT people in all of this?

Yes, another account does not have this ghost icon.
The problem is IT people doesn't want to me change my new account, they say they don't have time to fix this small potato problem.

Anyway thank all of helpers.

you said "The problem is I need use my current account to login my company network." Is this a company computer that you need ADMIN rights to make these kinds of changes?

Just like the NTFS (NT File System.) I strongly suggest you make a restore point then you can take ownership of the key, add you as an owner with full rights and again, since that is widely discussed, I'll stop here.
Bob