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How To Delete An “Undeletable”

December 3rd, 2009 by Admin

Delete An “undeletable” File

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 where 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.
http://www.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/delete_locked_undeletable_file_folder.jpg

Or you can try this

Open Notepad.exe

Click File>Save As..>

locate the folder where ur undeletable file is

Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box

click once on the file u wanna 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)

click save,

It should ask u to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and u can delete it as normal

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3 Responses

  1. web development

    Quite inspiring,

    This is a great “how to”

    Thanks for writing, most people don’t bother.

    Keep up the good work,

  2. cavi

    i have tried option 2 but it creates a zero kb file and its the only one that can be deleted. i did not try the first one coz taskmgr opens and closes a second after.

  3. prince

    this helps

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