re: file can't be deleted
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 2:56 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by the ber
(68 messages posted)
it could be malware. try booting to "safe mode" with an administrator account; then
you should be able to delete the file.
in cases like this i find it helpful to have a second installation of windows 2000
on the computer. then i can just boot up to the second installation, and delete whatever
files i want to in the first installation.
On Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 9:35 pm, Bob wrote:
>I have a file that can't be deleted, its name is too long for the recycle bin and
>can't be deleted.
>When I tell it to just to skip it, when i tried to delet it in cmd it kept telling
>me the file didn't exist, when i try to manually delete it's folder, it gives me
>the error, cannot delete REALPR~1.jpg cannot find the specified file.
>when i try to delete the file itself it just makes a ding sound and doesn't move,
>i think it has something to do with indexing but it tells me that properties are
>unavailable for the file
>Im not sure what to do, i don't think its a virus, its only 40kb is size, but it
>is sure annoying having it there. Also when I try to move the folder out of DocumentsAndSettings
>it tells me that realpr~1.jpg can't be moved because the source and destination
filename
>is the same, but i have no file with that name anywhere else on my computer
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