file that won't delete

Hi,
I hit print screen to take a sceenie to post here and pasted it in paint then saved to desktop after cropping it. Now it won't let me delete it saying it's in use by a program (even after a reboot). Type of file says "scrap object". Anyone know how to get rid of this?
Thanks

 

have you tried in safe mode

 

What are the file properties and permissions?

 

In safe mode it still won't delete and under properties it says file type: Scrap file

 

try deleting it through the command prompt.

 

Comand prompt didn't work either. I'd like to post a screen shot of it, but these 2 files appeared while trying to make a screen shot to post here for another question. Getting frustrated.

 

trying all angles here

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bezilom.worm.html

 

Thanks Kodo. I updated and ran Norton A.V. 2003 yesterday and ran a full scan and found nothing. The worm in that link is over a year old. I also checked the registry and the keys it said to delete were not in my registry. I've also checked for any strange applications that might be using these 2 files but saw nothing out of the ordinary. Whats weird is that they are nothing I downloaded, just 2 screen shots of my mobo stats from Aida32. Any other ideas, I'll try anything at this point?

 

Well this makes no sense at all to me, but I cut and pasted the 2 files from the desktop to the C: drive and they deleted fine. If anyone has an explanation for this, I'd like to hear it so I can learn. Thanks for the other suggestions also guys.

 

Thanks Nick, I already deleted them by moving them from the desktop to the C: drive, I'm just not sure why I was able to delete them after the move.

 

Know what you mean ...

I've found the same thing true: taking stuff off the Desktop and putting it "directly" on the C drive does the trick. The catch, as I see it, and though I can can't technically explain it, is that there's a slight difference between putting something directly on the Desktop (in Win9X Explorer it's the first location listed) verses putting something on the Desktop the "correct" way: C:\Windows\Desktop. This seems to be the "correct" way.

It's a routing issue of some sort, and I've found that when placing items on the Destop via C:\Windows\Desktop, I have less trouble with them all the way around (namely deleting items, but other nuances as well).

Hope this helps,

 

In 2K or XP, it won't be C:\windows\desktop, assuming thats what he is using.

It will be C:\documents and settings\"user profile\desktop.

Now if the filename is especially long, its plausible that the it is past the 256 character limit of the OS (or is it NTFS? I forget), and hence, it gies you errors deleteing it.

Moving it to C:\ would fix that, and renaming, if it lets you, will fix that.

NTFS has all sorts of little quirks.

 

It wasn't over 256 characters and I never thought of trying to delete it from the desktop folder, I just tried from the desktop itself. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks for the help.