Patric <> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am logged as administrator, no program running, and I
> can't delete any AVI file, I keep getting "close all
> running program..." message.
> This happens with any AVI file creates by any program or
> copied for back up.
> Any idea ?
Couple of things:
First, try this registry hack to help speed things up:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1209/
Second, to erase these files, you may want to try this:
Reboot.
Without accessing any GUI listing of the directories, open a command prompt.
Browse (using CD, DIR and such) to the directory in question in the command
prompt. Once there, get a directory listing and then type:
delete "filename of file you want to get rid of.extension"
and it should erase the file. It seems Windows XP is reading the file
information of the movie/mpg/avi/blah blah files all the time.. If anything
is wrong/weird/etc - it may not let go for you to erase it. Thus, in a
command prompt, this does not happen. The reboot simply clears things up
first.
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