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CAN't DELETE A FILE!
Name: CHRISTIAN Date: November 10, 2003 at 11:59:48 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1.5 Ghz / 512 SyncDram
Comment:
i have a movie file and i can't delete it because it says that the file is being used by another program but i have no other programs open. i even pressed ctrl alt delete to see if there were any programs that were open that could have possibly been using the file but there aren't any programs open. so i was wondering if should delete it in dos becasue i heard you can do that but i need the commands so could some one please help me. thanks alot
Name: Phil Date: November 10, 2003 at 12:10:07 Pacific
Reply:
found via Google:
"There is a problem that XP exhibits in deleting or moving broken AVI files...it won't let you! The reason is when an AVI file is clicked on/highlighted, shmedia.dll by default reads the entire contents of the file before allowing any access to the file. Basically what this means is: as soon as you right click a broken avi file, shmedia.dll hangs and won't allow further file access to delete the broken file.
Simply delete the following registry key to prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to file queries on these files."
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