How to Delete files locked in winXP
 

HOW TO DELETE LOCKED FILES IN WINXP

this is a 100% shurefire way to delete or modify files locked by winXP/NmDC

I wont bore you on the background of exactlly how this works so I'll just get procedure of how to do it.


1) Enter the task manager (ctrl-alt-del)
2) Locate and Select Explorer
3) Select 'Endtask' when exploer is selected
4) Click on 'File' and select new task
5) Click on Browse
6) Underfile of type Switch from 'Programs' to 'all files'
7) Goto your locked file/files location
8) Select your file
9) press the delete key(not backspace) on your keybord
10) restart explorer (new task -->type explorer -->'press Enter')
11) Emtpy Recycle Bin.

TO RENAME OR CHANGE A FILE

9) right click on your selected file
10) modifye your file accordinglly (re-name ect ect)
11) Restart Explorer




Ok thats all there is too it. For thoes who care, Im working on a program that will do all this automaticlly(sory cant make a patch for windows -MS tends to get mad when you do that) All the application will do is unlock all files in a given dirrectory. No the beta is not out yet, the soucse code tends to reformat HD's at the moment :D

Oh yeah.. If you want more info on this or other stupid things winXP + NMDC does pm or email me at jemmos@yahoo.com

Or simply close your window. Press start->run, type cmd. Go to the folder (using cd and dir command). Type del "filename". Usually works. No need to restart Explorer.

Or you can do as shown here:
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=841

Ooo, thanks for the info. Those files are the devil. Tonight I had a gig one after exporting some video. It was annoying, but it gave me great satisfaction when I killed it. :D

yeah but if u do that little tweaking u dont have to mess with that ever again, just click and delete :smile:

You can also kill those types of files when your in Safe Mode.

I know this might sound lame, but I got Norton Systemworks, and I haven't had any problems with frozen files since. Not as cool as tweaking, and certainly more expensive, but it does seem to work.

haha. you purchased software. :laugh:

I just wanted to mention ALT-CTRL-DELE and closing Explorer is a bad idea. Most times it causes the Explorer Shell to crash on your PC. This happened all the time too me.....

Funny, killing explorer in XP is what I have to do quite often nowadays (due to certain instability I've had since I got 96kB worth of bad sectors on my hd due to the heat this summer), and so far killing explorer hasn't crashed my system once. (I have to kill exploer and then restart it almost every time I start a non-exe file from explorer instead of dedicated application, so I do it tens of times a day).
In short - explorer is not a vital application in 32-bit windows. If killing explorer crashes your system - something with the system itself is wrong.