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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Commander La'ra on April 25, 2006, 06:49:25 pm

Title: Undeletable Files
Post by: Commander La'ra on April 25, 2006, 06:49:25 pm

Got a weird problem.  Was going to update my iTunes program but balked when I realized it was 35 MB and canceled the download...the problem is that now the 0 KB file is on my desktop (where Firefox put it) and I can't delete it.  It gives me the message that it's being used by a program and advises me to close any program that might be using it.  I figure Firefox and iTunes would be the only things that would be trying to make use of the file, but once I close them, I still can't delete, rename, move, the file.  It's very annoying.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Title: Re: Undeletable Files
Post by: Strat on April 25, 2006, 06:51:24 pm

Reboot the PC and try again.

Title: Re: Undeletable Files
Post by: Commander La'ra on April 25, 2006, 06:55:24 pm

Tried that, and alas, it doesn't work.

Title: Re: Undeletable Files
Post by: MrCue on April 25, 2006, 07:32:54 pm

Get up a comand prompt and navigate to your desktop.
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and click on "explorer.exe" and press "End Task"
now, in the command prompt delete the file.
Back on the task manager click "File -> New Task" and type explorer.exe and press enter.

I found this was the only way of getting rid of stubborn files.

Title: Re: Undeletable Files
Post by: Commander La'ra on April 25, 2006, 11:11:47 pm

Thanks, Cue.  That worked perfectly.

Appreciate the assistance from both of ya'.