Unable to delete a file

[siva]

hi there.
recently i downloaded a movie to my c drive but i can't delete it now. when i try to do so and error msg pops up saying that someone else or some other program is using that program but i am not connected on network and no other program is running. hope u can help me thanks.

[ESALADUANE]

What's your OS? If it's Win 2000 or XP check out "Cause 2" on this page.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;320081

[jmatt]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~laar2002/tweak...able-file.html

Delete "Unremovable" File
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 undeletable file is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where 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.

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http://rogier.xszone.nl/windows/wintricks.html
• Delete undeletable files
1) Close all open programs.
2) Open a Command Prompt window.
3) Close Explorer.exe from the task manager (ctrl-shift-esc), leave Task Manager open.
4) Navigate to the folder with the undeletable file(s) in the command prompt window with the cd command.
5) Delete the file with del filename.ext
6) Reopen explorer.exe from the taskmanager.

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