Archive for July, 2009

So i deleted a file from my desktop and instead of disappearing it decided instead to become an un-removable, 0 Kilobyte, blank icon. The only information i could still access about this file was its file name. I have encountered this problem before and think i sort of waited it out and after a while the icon disappeared.

When i tried to delete the file i got an error message:

“Could not find this item… This is no longer located in C:\users….
Verify the item’s location and try again.”

However i am quite “Anal” about howi keep my desktop and this time i was determined not to have it floating around cluttering up my shizzle.

Thing that didn’t work

• Re-naming then deleting
• Opening in a text editor and trying to add contents, then deleting
• Making a new file with exactly the same name and extension, restarting then deleting. (It actually allowed another file of the same name to be created in the same directory WTF?)
• Deleting through an admin dos prompt. FAIL
• Locating the exact place the file was stored on my HD and taking a particularly strong fridge magnet to it…..(DO NOT TRY THIS LOL)

After half an hour trawling forums and ignoring half a dozen retarded “Have you used a spyware remover?” and “Have you got an anti-virus?” (I am sure some forum posters have those answer on auto-reply to every issue) i found a half decent post which seemed to have resonable solution involving re-indexing.

The idea was that windows had failed to remove the reference to the file in its index which seemed resonable.

To be fair i was warned “re-indexing may take a very long time” …… after about an hour of waiting for stupid re-indexing(which may actually take care of the problem) i stumbled upon

The Solution

I remembered i didn’t wait futily for it to disappear last time i found…

Which is freeware…. however you can donate money! This program deleted the $h1t out of my stupid un-removable, previously deleted file.  Watch out for e-bay adverts or some such rubbish during the install of this program. I haven’t yet found a succesfull forum thread solving this issue so i thought i would share……

The new Peter Jackson movie is coming soon; admittedly I am not a fan of all his movies however being a bit of a sci-fi junky I am looking forward to “District 9”. The new film promises to be a virtual CGI fest packed with interesting “Alien tech” and a 99% chance of bad guys getting beat the F*&K down. The bad guys in this film though appear to be the human governance keeping those aliens in a Ghetto style camp.

How does this even start to work?

I just finished watching a show by Penn & Teller called “Bullshit” and apparently recycling is a waste of time, energy and money. It seems people have known that recycling is a waste of time for quite while. Were I live we have just started recycling and everyone still seems to think, due to media and the government, that it is fantastic. I thought this was an interesting subject because we are spending so much time and money on the project so here are a few links.

If you have a bit of time on your hands i would advise watching the show “Bullshit” available, dubiously here.