corrupted file name in Windows XP, crashes explorer

[anlashok]

SHARED~1.D☺T

I can't seem to find a way to deal w/ this file using any of the
solutions posted on the forums.
Started w/ trying to highlight name to delete or rename, but that
causes explorer.exe to crash.
Using the command prompt window, I did a dir /x to get short and long
name for this. Short file was null, only getting long file field.
11/01/2003 11:02 AM 128 SHARED~1.D☺T

I did a del "SHARED~1.D☺T", del "SHARED~1.*", but both say the
filename is incorrect. chkdsk didn't solve this, either. I'd like to
rename this file back to the correct filename, but delete if thats the
only solution.
Norton Antivirus is up to date, used SpyBot and Ad-Aware to look for
hijack. Checked the fonts folder for .hta and .htf etc files.
Any other possible solutions??

 

[Bill Blanton]

SHARED~1.D☺T

I can't seem to find a way to deal w/ this file using any of the
solutions posted on the forums.
Started w/ trying to highlight name to delete or rename, but that
causes explorer.exe to crash.
Using the command prompt window, I did a dir /x to get short and long
name for this. Short file was null, only getting long file field.
11/01/2003 11:02 AM 128 SHARED~1.D☺T

I did a del "SHARED~1.D☺T", del "SHARED~1.*", but both say the
filename is incorrect. chkdsk didn't solve this, either. I'd like to
rename this file back to the correct filename, but delete if thats the
only solution.

Not knowing what it is, it's hard to say whether you should delete it, but
I would guess it is corrupt and is not able to open by any process that
wanted (or needed) it anyway.

You might try moving all other files out and then deleting the folder. Recreate
the folder, and move the good files back.

 

[pjp]

Or even doing a ' del "shared*.*" ' or even 'del shared*.*'. Seem to
remember I've had the odd bad filename over the years and often using the
wildcard syntax would work.

Now why a modern supoposedly state of the art file system even allows a
"junk" filename to be created is beyond me. Guess it's the same type of
quality as Explorer hanging when deleting large number of files under 98!!!

 

[anlashok]

Or even doing a ' del "shared*.*" ' or even 'del shared*.*'. Seem to
remember I've had the odd bad filename over the years and often using the
wildcard syntax would work.

Now why a modern supposedly state of the art file system even allows a
"junk" filename to be created is beyond me. Guess it's the same type of
quality as Explorer hanging when deleting large number of files under 98!!!

Yeah, tried that, but file isn't found.

 

[Bill Blanton]

Yeah, tried that, but file isn't found.

FAT or NTFS?

You might try a file eraser such as ActiveEraser. http://www.active-eraser.com/
There are many others.

It depends on whether the particular eraser program uses the Windows API or
goes below the file system to erase the directory entry.