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It is being used by another person or program

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DavidoFoo

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.exe that failed to dl completely and won't gtfo my comp. I look in properties and it says it's being used by MSDOS. How do I fix this?
 
Welcome to the Forums 🙂 Try rebooting in Safe Mode and delete it from there, to start with. If that doesn't work, post back.
 
This file fragment, is it on your desktop screen? Try this:

Log on in Safe Mode again and go Start > Run > cmd to get a command-line box going.

Use the cd command to change to your user account's desktop directory. Like, if the prompt starts in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32, then go cd \ to get out to C:\, and then go cd \documents and settings\(your_account_name_here)\Desktop and the prompt should show that you're there.

Next, leave your command-prompt window open, and open Task Manager, go to the Processes tab, and kill off Explorer.exe. Your taskbar should disappear.

Now go to your command-line box and type dir to see what's on your desktop, and del filename to delete it.
 
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