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not come across this before; but i have win2000 and cannot delete a couple of files in this one directory. i have done scandisk/defrag and when i investigate the properties it says another process may be using the files.. i find this hard to believe..
i have tried from command line and within windows.
how can i get rid of them...?
they are either TXT or DOC files, so nothing special.
have you tried in safe mode?
have you checked the properties on the files themselves?
yep, comes up with sharing violation - file being used elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferrit
as for safe mode; not done it yet....
Haven't seen you here for a while Mr.M...
Are you sure you have delete rights?
I've also seen file attribs get corrupted. a chkdsk /f fixed it and after a reboot I was able to delete the files.
UnLocker (Freeware)
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlockerQuote:
Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows?
"Cannot delete Folder:It is being used by another person or program.
Close any programs that might be using the file and try again"
It has many other flavors:
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
very nice - I have used procexp until now - but this one seem to be very nice indeedQuote:
Originally Posted by TechZ
Cheers,
Gabriel
What are the file names?
emr
unlocker did it. i got them deleted. aparently (somehow) a program called ares was hogging the files..although i dont know why as none are related or relevent.
:)
ares is a P2P - http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/
I'd be running a few spyware proggies on that machine...I bet there's a bunch of crap on it.