Deleting The Undeletable

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.

also you can open up notepad/file/open
select the file you wish to delete right click choose delete it should be gone.

this has worked for me numerous times.

Nice tip

Great for deleting trojans :D

but what about folders i tried that opening notepad etc. dident work for folders would the other way work?

good tip..but doesn&#39;t work for every file, but does for most

Ive got a nifty little prog that my bro gave me called KILL.exe. It works a dream and deletes (and totally wipes) any files you want that are in the same folder as the program. If anyone wants it PM me and i can send it to you.

(PS. I know it sounds like a virus, but trust me its not&#33; :D )

or you could disable windows file protection. i guess this would help you.

open regedit. goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&#092;SOFTWARE&#092;Microsoft&#092;Windows NT&#092;CurrentVersion&#092;Winlogon
and find key SFCDisable. change value (in hex) to 0xFFFFFF9D.

this tweak is for win xp.

entering safe mode, is the best way

or simply if your running any trojan cleaners

like the cleaner, you can simply right click on tcative, and remove with that..

huh. i did it in dos. then i realized i forgot to turn off explorer.exe... but it worked anyway...

(this is the file that i haven&#39;t been able to delete)

TY&#33; :)

You can try cutting and pasting it into the recycle bin. It works for me.

ahhhh... cutting and pasting... going back to kindergarten :P

Can you cut and paste when something is in use? :blink:

ummm, i don&#39;t really know... but I do the cut and paste thing right after restarting my computer.

Doesn&#39;t work, in use. :P I still think safe mode if better.

Whatever floats your boat :P

P.S. Your really going for Post-whore now. Your ALL over the board :lol:
Good luck :w00t:
And it&#39;s time for me to slow.... down.... I have like an average of 24 posts per day... :teehee:

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Originally posted by Shinigami@13 March 2003 - 20:52
Whatever floats your boat :P

P.S. Your really going for Post-whore now. Your ALL over the board :lol:
Good luck :w00t:
And it&#39;s time for me to slow.... down.... I have like an average of 24 posts per day... :teehee:

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Yeah you&#39;re retiring. :P Well back to work answering questions. :lol: :P

The only way that I was able to "del the undel..."

Open a dos prompt and cd to your shared folder
then use the del <name.ext> for the file- ALWAYS WORKS IN DOS

A trick that has always worked so far for me when I try to delete a file and get the message that it is in use by another application is to create a new file eg. right click in the folder that the file to be deleted is stored, select &#39;New&#39; and select &#39;Text document&#39; or similar. Then save the txt file as whatever name you like, don&#39;t type anything into notepad or whatever you use to create the file & it will appear as a 0Kb file. Then select this 0Kb file first & with Ctrl held down, select the file you want to delete. You should find that they will now be deletable as a pair. :)

I`ve never had this problem, what would make me have to use the technique? :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

I CAN ALWAYS DELET THE UNDELETEABLES IT EASY BUT IM NOT A LOOUD TO SAY HOW HEHEHE

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Originally posted by infamousalbo101@31 March 2003 - 07:29
I CAN ALWAYS DELET THE UNDELETEABLES IT EASY BUT IM NOT A LOOUD TO SAY HOW HEHEHE

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:blink: Fecking great Tip there "infamousalbo101" - anything else you feel you can&#39;t share just go right ahead and post it&#33;

:ph34r:

ok