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Can't Delete, Move, or Cut File. Please Help.

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gflores

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There are two files, both of them are video. One was downloaded from Kazaa Lite and the other from IRC. Well, the problem is that I can't move, delete, cut them and it's driving me nuts. I can however, copy them and play them, strangely enough. The error that appears when I attempt to cut/move/rename/dlt them is...

Cannot move "Filename": It is being used by another person or program. Close any program that might be using the file and try again.
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I made a copy of one of the video files and I couldn't delete that file either. So I went into safe mode and I deleted that copy, but I couldn't delete the original video file.
For the other file, I couldn't do anything with it but suddenly I could move it, but only once. How messed up is that?

I'm using Windows XP and the files are read-only or anything like that. I'm going to go to Safe-Mode one more time and see if it works. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Is it an avi file? If so, open Regedit (start->run->"regedit"), and go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32 . Delete this key.
 
it could also be a corrupted file, if the regkey fix doesn't do it, I'd suggest running a full chkdsk /r on the drive to search for possible problems.
 
If you just want to get rid of them, just boot into command console and navigate to the files and delete them. Which, by the way, I call my "Drive a Wooden Stake Through It's Heart" method. They don't come back.
 
Originally posted by: lucky9
If you just want to get rid of them, just boot into command console and navigate to the files and delete them. Which, by the way, I call my "Drive a Wooden Stake Through It's Heart" method. They don't come back.
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that will work perfectly. but if you are afraid of messing with the console, boot up in safe mode and deleting the file would work also.

 
open up command prompt
try ctrl-alt-del
kill explorer
do whatever command prompt
restart explorer (new app button - type in explorer.exe)
 
Forgot to say what happened... I tried going into safe mode, because well it seemed safest to do. Well, that didn't work 🙁 So, then I tried the registry thing and it worked perfectly. Thanks. What exactly did this key do? I don't like deleting stuff without knowing what it does. Thank you, that freed up about 1.7 gigs 🙂
 
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