More unwanted desktop icons

[Peter Kinross]

I have 3 unwanted desktop icons. "Creative Cloud Files"; "OneDrive" and "Dropbox"

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I have already asked on the Lounge about Creative Cloud, so let's not waste time on that one. But maybe some Lounger will know how to remove the other 2.
I have tried all the usual without success. I have also tried 'Unlocker' (a brilliant piece of programming), also without success.

[HansV]

Do you want to see desktop icons at all? If not:
- Right-click an empty part of the desktop.
- Click on View.
- 'Desktop icons' in the submenu should be ticked; click it to remove the check box.
Now ALL your desktop icons will be hidden.

[Rudi]

I don't have Win10 (yet) so I cannot advise on actually deleting them, but as a temporary fix, create a Miscellaneous folder and drag the unwanted icons into that...(a bit of spring cleaning as per sê)

[Peter Kinross]

Hans:- yes I have about 16 other icons that I use a lot.
Rudi:- tried that, they won't drag.
Thanks anyway guys.

[DaveA]

Do you use these cloud drives?
If NOT, then uninstall the linking programs.

[JoeP]

What happens if you right click the icon and select "delete"?

Joe

[Peter Kinross]

Rudi, just clarifying; the icons will of course drag - just won't drag into a folder.
Dave, I don't use Creative Cloud Files, but Adopy won't let me delete it because I "still have programs that use it". I assume they mean Photoshop CC. Grrr!
Joe, that was the first thing I tried. I even tried 'Unlocker' on them - 'Unlocker' has NEVER failed me. Just had it's perfect record ruined!
I just searched my C: drive for "*Creative Cloud Files*". Found an Adopy folder in 'Users' called CoreSync. I deleted that, re-started - no dice still have that ridiculous folder staring at me. Grrr again.

[JoeP]

Have you tried to take ownership of the icons?

Joe

[Peter Kinross]

Already the owner of 2 of them Joe. Creative Cloud Files won't let me see.
So still stuck.