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re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program!
Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 2:54 am
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Posted by David (1 messages posted)


Hmmm. I have a similar problem in XP Home, but it's a load of files played using Real player which refuse to delete. Seems that Real player doesn't let go sometimes. Not a serious problem for me but a real annoyance.


On Thursday, November 7, 2002 at 5:54 pm, dad wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent
>file corruption problems
:


>I'm hoping that this is not a file corruption problem. I'm trying to uninstall a
>Real Player program listed in my Install/Uninstall List. I see a progress bar to
>about 37% and then I get an uninstallation error saying: "could not delete the file
>C:\windows\system\RA3228_8.dll. The file is being used by another application.Please
>close all apps that use this file and try again." I had nothing else open or running
>or in my tray or even in the Close Program window except explorer at the time. What
>to do? BTW, I ran a QuickClean of my register to see if this file would appear in
>the list of registry files that would be "cleaned" from my register by QuickClean
>but it wasn't among the many files listed. Thanks for any help.
>


Written in response to:
I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (dad: Thursday, November 7, 2002 at 5:54 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (Rickard: Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 6:26 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (dad: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 5:54 pm)
-re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (Oh_dear: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 6:24 pm)
-re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (dad: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 9:56 pm)
*re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (JmC: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 10:53 pm)
-re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (Duh: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 8:13 pm)
*re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (christina: Tue, Jun 8, 2004, 4:02 pm)
*re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (tom mcfadden: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 2:20 pm)
*re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (Kyle: Sat, Dec 28, 2002, 1:34 pm)
-re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (David: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 2:54 am)
-re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (Rickard: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 6:26 am)
*re: I cannot delete a file-so I can't uninstall a program! (Rickard: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 6:30 am)
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