Hopefully it's a recent download and a System Restore will solve the problem. Just choose a date immediately prior to the icon appearing. If not, it gets complicated.
Control Panel>Programs & Features>Delete eBay Icon Installer>Reboot>Now in Programs delete it there>then Start>Run regedit, delete all remnants there. Make sure you back up the Registry first. Obvioiusly be careful in the future as to what you download.
Hi, if unlocker doesn't work (it is a good program), these things can be a pain, I would first try to flush the icon cache, go to start, search and type:- cmd, right click on the returned cmd.exe and select "run as administrator" at the prompt type each line and press enter after each.
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f (your desktop will go blank)
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h iconcache.db
del iconcache.db
shutdown –r
If this fails (in cmd) navigate to the desktop directory usually c:\users\"Your user name"\desktop and type:- dir /x /a It will look like this:-
c:\Users\Paul\Desktop>dir /x /a
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 249F-3961
If you look at the one highlighted in red then the normal name is ATF-Cleaner.exe NOW the 8.3 filename is ATF-CL~1.LNK so if windows were to recognize this as the Icons file name we have to use this to delete it otherwise windows cannot find it. So at cmd we would type:- del ATF-CL~1.LNK
Now if this fails the next step is to delete the startup desktop.ini file windows will recreate this file, see how you go with the cache rebuild first.
BTW the namespace entries for desktop icons are located:-
Hi, could you right click on the Icon and select Properties under the shortcut tab select "open file location" does it point you to a program .. let us know what you find.
If you tell what you did, others would appreciate it.
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