Delete An "undeletable" File

Sometimes you may have been caught in the situation in which you are not able to delete a file that you want to. In such cases, it becomes a sort of headache.

Following procedure can be adopted to counterfeit the problem:

• 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 AVI (or other 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.

Or you can try this

• Open Notepad.exe
• Click File>Save As..>
• Locate the folder where ur undeletable file is
• Choose 'All files' from the file type box
• Click once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the 'filename' box
• Put a " at the start and end of the filename (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)
• Click save.
• It should ask u to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and u can delete it as normal

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