File will not delete

[imported_Nacelle]

I was at a lan party a while back. A guy had a folder full of stuff, so I grabbed the whole thing. There was this one avi in there that will windows will not let me delete. It tells me "Can not delete: xxx.avi is being used by another program" It's not set to read only. And I don't have anything open that is playing the movie.
Any ideas on how to get rid of it?

 

[Jeff7]

Explorer is trying to find information on the file; if there's anything wrong with it, rather than stopping and reporting an error, Explorer just keeps on trying to view the file contents, which makes it register as "in use."
I found a website with the registry patch, though the site itself is set up with lousy colors.
Link
You might need to reboot after installing the registry patch.

 

[hairygit1]

failing that - boot into dos with a floppy -
find the file.
smash the little buddy over the head with your del xxx.avi command - and if that don't work,
try
attrib -a -r -s -h [enter]
del xxx.avi [enter]

 

[hairygit1]

failing that - boot into dos with a floppy -
find the file.
smash the little buddy over the head with your del xxx.avi command - and if that don't work,
try
attrib -a -r -s -h [enter]
del xxx.avi [enter]

 

[clicknext]

Try booting into safe mode and deleting. That usually works for me.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Well, reg patch didn't work
Safe Mode didn't work
What's a floppy, again?

 

[AtTheGates]

Link
Czar's solution worked for others.

 

[GreatBarracuda]

Try this

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Thanks AtTheGates I opened Nero and deleted from there. It's gone now. Woo Hoo.