[windows_errors] Re: [What_Error_Messages_Really_Mean_WinXP] "You can not delete the file....It is being used by some...."
- From: Mean Drake <meandrake@xxxxxxx>
- To: What_Error_Messages_Really_Mean_WinXP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:36:08 +0530
Delete them from safe mode. Or boot to Command prompt and delete them.
MD.
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bummer.
Sunday, November 2, 2003, 5:28:45 PM, atreyu wrote:
> Hello everybody!!
> I am new on this list.
> Here it comes my first question:
> When I try to delete divx films from my hard drive, I get a message like this:
> "You can not eliminate 'name of
> the file.avi' It is being used by some other person or program.
> Close all the programs that might be
> using this file and then try again"
> After closing all the downloading programs that I use (soulseek,
> emule), I still get the same error when I try to delete the file.
> After checking the task manager (ctrl-alt-supr), I find no
> application at all that might be using the file. By looking at the
> subpage in the task manager called "process", I see a lot of
> resident applications running, yet I don't know if some of them
> might be accessing the file I wanna delete. I recognize some of them
> but no one seems to be related to my file in question.
> Is there a way to find out which process are accessing the file I
> wanna delete? If I knew which process is accessing my file I could
> close it and that is all!
> Is there a way in which I could trick windows and delete the file
> despite of the error message it didplays?
> Thanx in advance.
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