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file wont delete
Name: matt Date: April 14, 2002 at 18:52:39 Pacific
Comment:
i have a 555mb file (.avi) that i can't delete. whenever i try deleting it it says its being used by another program (but it isn't. please someone tell me how to fix this (i want my 555mbs back!!)
Name: Rodius Date: April 14, 2002 at 19:09:33 Pacific
Reply:
Check to see if it is running at startup ; Start>run>msconfig>startup, see if it is the list.
Or ctrl+alt+delete, then see if it running in any of the windows.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanker Date: April 14, 2002 at 21:29:02 Pacific
Reply:
q308421 support.microsoft.com
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Response Number 3
Name: Mr 10 inch Date: April 14, 2002 at 21:41:14 Pacific
Reply:
hello....try to go into safe mode and delete it...you can delete everything in safe mode......restart your computer and press F8 and you will go into safe mode...bye
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Response Number 4
Name: Alan Date: April 14, 2002 at 23:35:52 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Matt,
You could also check the Maximum size of the recycle bin, right click on the desktop icon and it will give you the info for the maximum size just increase the size to 50% and then try to delete the file . Hope this helps Cheers Alan
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Response Number 5
Name: sandman Date: April 15, 2002 at 01:06:19 Pacific
Reply:
Point at the avi file until the preview is displayed and then try to delete it. Since it is such a large file it can take xp a second to get done using the file itself for building the preview. This has happened to me before and this usally does the trick.
If the above responses didnt help for some reason, you could use a win98 bootdisk and delete it from dos. Unless your drive is ntfs.
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