Re: Folders will not delete

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From: Trish (your_mofo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/08/04


Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:56:19 +0100


"Bill Hughes" <whughes151@abe.midco.net> wrote in message
news:817401c495aa$51f9a270$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I have 3 folders on my desktop which will not DELETE. The
> floders are empty. I've searched for other locations of
> these folders on the computer. (There are none.)
>
> The computer always returns this message:
> "Folder can't be deleted b/c another program or person is
> using the folder."
>
> But, there are no other programs running using these
> folders.
>
> I've rebooted several times using Windows XP with the SP2
> package installed.
>
> What do I do to get the 3 folders deleted?
>

You could use moveonboot.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html

-- 
Trish
Dublin, Ireland 


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