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DrunkenWDrunkenW Member Posts: 250
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How to delete files that "cannot be deleted" or moved?
thanks

-w

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  • ElapsedElapsed Member UncommonPosts: 2,329

    It might be set to read only. Right click > Properties > uncheck read only, try again

  • Malachi1975Malachi1975 Member Posts: 1,079

    If that doesn't work for you try Killbox.

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/killbox.php

    "What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."

  • DeltaMazeDeltaMaze Member Posts: 198

    Sometimes if you restart your pc and try again it works.

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  • SackynutSackynut Member Posts: 558

    it means it being used by another program at the time.

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  • DrunkenWDrunkenW Member Posts: 250

    Thanks all.

    Wierd. It's not read only and killbox can't delete them cause "the file is in use"
    these files are old so yes, i've tried rebooting.

    funny thing is this is all .exe files i recognize, not spyware

  • Malachi1975Malachi1975 Member Posts: 1,079
    I am assuming you have gone through Msconfig > Startup and Taskmanager > Processes and made sure they're not running or being run at start up?

    "What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."

  • ElapsedElapsed Member UncommonPosts: 2,329

    ^^ What he said.

    Also you may want to try booting into safe mode. You can do that by Start > Run > msconfig > BOOT.INI tab > check /SAFEBOOT

    Hit OK and restart

    You'll be in safe mode then, try deleting the file again. To get out of safe mode, do the same process as above and uncheck /SAFEBOOT and restart.

  • tigertunestigertunes Member Posts: 39
    Start - Run - Type in "regedit" and search from the files and delete them form the registry
  • DekronDekron Member UncommonPosts: 7,359
    You need to start windows in command line mode (before the shell loads) and delete it via the command line.
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