Can't delete downloaded MPEG from Temp

[hedgehog]

My brother got himself into a jam! He downloaded an MPEG from
Morpheus or Imesh or one of those file swaps and viewed it. He
deleted it from his hard drive. But he accidentally found a second
copy in his Temp folder. Somebody told me that there is a copy in the
temp because he tried to "preview" the MPEG before it actually
downloaded - that's why the file is in TEMP. The file can't be played
(I think it is 0 bytes) but it says it is type MPEG. The title of the
file is also something he does not want on his system. When he tries
to delete it, it tells him access denied, or something like that.
Tried to drag into Trash - no luck. Can't copy/paste/cut it into
another dir. Can't even rename the file. I tried to help him but am
no expert myself. Checked the permissions at the file level and the
folder level, and there was nothing I could see wrong (not that I
would know anyway). When he empties the temp folder, this file always
get skipped.

What is going on? He really wants to remove this. Thanks.

 

[Prashant Nema [MSFT]]

The program (Morpheus or Imesh) is still holding that file. Open up task
manager and kill that program(end process) and try deleting the file after
that.

If it doesnt work that way, use the utility on
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml to figure out which
program is holding your file. Kill that program from the task manager
(switch to processes tab).

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any problems.

-P