Re: In the mad and crazy world of home computing . . . (ShowFolder[1]. - Delete Problem)

In news:e8h$4V3nFHA.3828@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Stan Shankman <stantheman@xxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Well, guess what?
>
> I tried those things, and neither would remove the file.
<snip>

Well then you've gots a problem... If those don't take care of it and
(missed an obvious one) you can't delete it if you log on as a different
user then your options are limited. One of them is expensive - you can try
the Admin Pak from Winternals at about $1000 dollars. It's what many larger
enterprises use but you're a home user and I don't think you can justify
those expenses.

Another option is Bart's PE. That will enable you to boot to CD/DVD and work
from outside the OS with a handy GUI.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Finally, if you have some urge to do so, you can try Knoppix... (I'm not
really making this stuff up you know.)

KNOPPIX Linux Live CD:
http://www.knoppix.org/

It's kind of strange recommending that you use Linux to fix Windows but,
well, your case is worse than most of the ones we see or this would have
already been cleared up with the earlier mentioned tools. Anyhow the bottom
two are free. You did check permissions, try resetting them with NTFS4DOS
with the attribute command, etc? Beyond this I don't know what to tell you.
You can try checking with Process Explorer and maybe find out what's taking
away the access.

Sysinternals Freeware - Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

I think I've covered about all the available options for you or a variation
of the known fixes for this. Beyond this one I have only hard options like
Kixtart scripting to delete it on boot... That might not even work as move
on boot didn't do the trick either.

Galen
--

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward."

Sherlock Holmes


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