unable to delete selected files

**Mr_Miyagi** · December 21st, 2005, 10:02 AM

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.

**geoscomp** · December 21st, 2005, 10:09 AM

have you tried in safe mode?

**Ferrit** · December 21st, 2005, 12:42 PM

have you checked the properties on the files themselves?

**Mr_Miyagi** · December 21st, 2005, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

have you checked the properties on the files themselves?

yep, comes up with sharing violation - file being used elsewhere.

as for safe mode; not done it yet....

**TripleRLtd** · December 21st, 2005, 01:02 PM

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

**shamus** · December 21st, 2005, 01:50 PM

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.

**TechZ** · December 21st, 2005, 02:18 PM

UnLocker (Freeware)

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.

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker

**Gabriel** · December 25th, 2005, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by TechZ

UnLocker (Freeware)

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker

very nice - I have used procexp until now - but this one seem to be very nice indeed

Cheers,
Gabriel

**emr** · December 26th, 2005, 06:59 AM

What are the file names?

emr

**Mr_Miyagi** · December 29th, 2005, 04:55 AM

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.