re: unable to delete a file
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 8:39 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by larry neff
(1 messages posted)
YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THRU ALL THIS REGISTRY BUSINESS, AND IT'S DANGEROUS. JUST DO
THIS:
Windows explorer.exe, the thing that keeps track of open files, gets confused about
which files are still in use. So just kill it and restart it.
- Alt-Ctl-Del
- Task Manager
- Click the Processes tab
- Sort into name order by clicking Image Name heading.
- Find, click explorer.exe
- Click the End Process button.
- File->New Task (Run...)
- Enter "explorer"
- Click Ok
Your desktop icons have disappeared and reappeared. Now you can delete/rename the
file.
On Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 2:37 am, branson wrote:
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>i have tried everything that everyone has tried but the files are still not being
>deleted.It wont even let me watch them any more. i was moving them around from folder
>to folder along with deleting some files when it messed up. they are on my external
>hardrive and when i try it says " cannot delete [NTF]file name: Access is denied.
>Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently
>in use, Also it wont open in note pad. i cant change the name, and says access denied
>when trying to open it with other programs. Any help anyone can offer would be great
>thanxs.
>
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