File that is always in use by another program!?!?

[SuperFreaky]

I am using WindowsXP and it seems like Direct Connect sometimes generates these!! (I have 2 .avi files) Any ideas on how to delete them?? XP gives a "Cannot Delete... It is being used by another program or person" error... no matter what I shut down!

The drive is NTFS so I don't have any boot disks that will read it!
Scan and Check Disk don't find anything...

 

[nord1899]

Try something like Process Explorer from Sys Internals.

Select handles in the user interface rather than DLL's. In the handle description it will mention its a file. Search for the process that has a lock on that file. Make sure its okay to kill that process and then delete the file if you can.

 

[SuperFreaky]

I found that explorer.exe is using it... which doesn't seem to help, if I close explorer, it just restarts and has a lock on it again.

 

[starwarsdad]

Try booting into Safe Mode and deleting them.

 

[AT]

Same situation here. Downloaded stuff with DC++ and cant delete them from NTFS drive. Silly solution but for me works deleting the files using Nero.

 

[SuperFreaky]

hey it worked! Is there anything Nero can't do!!

thanks AT