Re: 'locked' files

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From: roger (sergiorogerdon'tspam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:17:25 -0600

Alan,

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:01:03 -0700, Alan S
<alanflorence@reynolds.net.au> wrote:

>I have a couple of files (one .AVI, one .jpg), which I cannot delete (or move or anything else), as windows says it is in use by other programs.
>
>The operating system has been through multiple boots without releasing the files.
>
>How can I changed the 'status' of the file so that I can remove them from the system.

If you have Nero, try to delete them using the Nero browser.

Otherwise, open a command prompt (Run > Start > cmd) change to the
folder where the file is, open task manager and end explorer.exe with
it.
in the command prompt tye del file_name.extension
Open a new task in task manager > Explorer.exe

Good luck

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