re: Cannot delete a file in XP Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 9:13 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Carlos (1 messages posted) You cannot believe the time that I lost trying to delete a file... And, again it was so simple!! But, still, I cannot understand why this strange but simple method works, and all the others fails. I tried to change the proprieties of the file and folder, and a lot of others things, but with no avail. Thank You so much, for your wisdom!! Carlos P.S.: I think that these procedure came from the mac aplications, originally... On Thursday, September 5, 2002 at 10:38 pm, troy wrote: >Try opening you recycle bin and then minimize it into the task bar. then open the >location the file you are attempting to delete is, left click and hold, on the folder >and drag into the minimized recycle bin which is in the task bar, hold the folder >over the recycle bin untill it maximizes and then release it in the bin. That should >work. Good Luck! 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