Delete An "undeletable" File

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Have you ever come across a file that just wouldn't go away? You tried deleting it, right clicking and deleting, dragging it all the way across your desktop to the recycling bin, just to get that pesky message telling you the file cannot be deleted. What a pain in the ass, right? Well, here are some ways to make it go away.

One way:

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.
Close all open programs.
Click Start--> Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
Leave Task Manager open.
Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.
At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete.
Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
Close Task Manager.

Or you can try this:

Open Notepad.exe, then Click File-->Save As-->
locate the folder where your "undeletable" file is,
Choose "All files" from the file type box.
Click once on the file you want to delete so its name appears in the "filename" box, put a " at the start and end of the filename (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it), then click save.
It should ask you to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and you can delete it as normal.

Here's a "manual" way of doing it:

1. Start
2. Run
3. Type: command
4. To move into a directory type: cd c:\*** (The astericks stand for your folder)
5. If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces, for example, Program Files or Limewire Pro in the
folder, you have to do the following:
Instead of typing in the full folder name, only take the first 6 letters then put a ~ and then 1 without spaces. Example: cd c:\progra~1\limewi~1
6. Once your in the folder, the non-deletable file is in, type in "dir" - a list will come up with everything inside.
7. Now to delete the file, type in del ***.bmp, txt, jpg, avi, etc... And if the file name has spaces, you would use the special 1st 6 letters followed by a ~ and a 1 rule.
Example: if your file name was bad file.bmp, you would type once in the specific folder thorugh command, del badfil~1.bmp and your file should be gone.
Make sure to type in the correct extension.

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