RE: deleting undeletable files

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From: r (r_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:43:02 -0800

You forgot to name the program :)

"Chris" wrote:

> Okay okay, this migh have been posted before, but I searched and came up
> blank.
>
> There is a program running on my computer, I know exaclty where it is,
> what's it's called and all that. It runs in my process list of my Task
> Manager, but when I try to stop it, I get some sort of citical system error
> message. I tried to delete it with safe mode, cmd prompt, closing
> explorer.exe and then trying it then reloading it, and nothing worked. It
> isn't being picked up by any of my virus scanners/spyware apps so I am not
> sure what to do. It eats up my computers usage then my computer is very very
> slow. it runs when I start up my desktop. I tried to disable it through
> msconfig, but it just comes back. I tried to delete the registry entrys, but
> they came back. Anyone know of a way of deleting it? I remember a while back
> reading something about being able to use the cmd prompt to delete a file,
> but I forgot what had to be inputted in order for it to work. Some sort of
> string that bypassed the settings and the recycling bin and all that, but
> like I said I do not remember. ANY AND ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED THANK YOU!!!

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