deleting files

i am having troble with trying to remove some files that
windows is not allowing me to remove.
The problem is when looking in explore i have about 20 to
30 folder all with different folder names but all
contaning the same end exe file:-

example:-
C:\3e7e533f8b70d561c79910c8d41648cf\sp2\update.exe
C:\6dbefdebef0af91c926cbfb678ab\sp2\update.exe
C:\14a5d48a039e30b84e14867371\sp2\update.exe

If i click the exe i get a SetupError Setup could not
find the update.inf file needed to update your system.
How can i delete these files?????
Why are there so many all to the same exe????
Is there a way off turning of windows file protection to
remove them???

Paul
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:08:29 -0700, "Paul"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>i am having troble with trying to remove some files that
>windows is not allowing me to remove.
>The problem is when looking in explore i have about 20 to
>30 folder all with different folder names but all
>contaning the same end exe file:-
>
>example:-
>C:\3e7e533f8b70d561c79910c8d41648cf\sp2\update.exe
>C:\6dbefdebef0af91c926cbfb678ab\sp2\update.exe
>C:\14a5d48a039e30b84e14867371\sp2\update.exe
>
>If i click the exe i get a SetupError Setup could not
>find the update.inf file needed to update your system.
>How can i delete these files?????
>Why are there so many all to the same exe????
>Is there a way off turning of windows file protection to
>remove them???

Paul,

if you are sure that you can safely delete them, have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxCannotDelete.htm.

Hans-Georg

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