How the heck do I delete this PNG file?

[TonyG]

I am trying to clean up some old pages I had created with Fireworks and saved as PNG files, and all but one I have been able to delete. I am also not sure where this file came from, not named anything I would have named it. I can't open it or delete it, rename it or anything. Whenever I try to delete it, it gives me an error saying the source file or destination file is in use. How the heck can I delete it? Help? Thanks.
Just really annoyed at my computer not allowing me to delete it.

 

[Zorro]

Format C:/












j/k

 

[stukincalifornia]

Boot to dos (perhaps with a windows boot disk) and delete it.

 

[Beau]

Rename the file and delete it that way. Otherwise, boot to dos (if you can).

 

[TonyG]

Lets see if I can find a boot disk. I can't even rename the stupid file. Thanks

 

[AnthraX101]

Actualy, I beleve I know the file you are talking about 🙂 IIRC: It should be a PDF file, of the DMCA. However, it has the wrong ext. EDIT: Whoops, just reread your post. Well I had one that was that way 🙂 this may not work for you.

To delete it, the best way is to terminate your explorer.exe process, restart it, go into a comand prompt, and remove it from there.

What windows is trying to do is create a thumbnail of the file, which it can't do due to the invalid file. So it simply sucks up all your processing cycles trying to do it, and marks the file as being accessed all the wile.

Armani

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Uh... please tell me that you've tried simply restarting your computer first...

nik (runs into that problem occassionally. Just reboot, diz00d)

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Uh... please tell me that you've tried simply restarting your computer first...

nik (runs into that problem occassionally. Just reboot, diz00d)

Yeah, that happends to me too 🙂
-- mrcodedude

 

[TonyG]

finally got it through the command prompt. I had rebooted several times and that made no difference, tried to boot off floppy but that didn't work, drive is formatted as NTSF format. I tried going through command prompt several times before it finally worked. Thanks for the help, I guess AnthraX101 was right about windows trying to create a thumbnail. I didn't even open the folder it was in, just went directly to command prompt after rebooting and restarting explorer. Thanks for the help.