Invalid File Name

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Pierre de Beer

Windows will not allow me to delete a file with the following name "c.divx".
On closer inspection there is 2 unprintable characters in the file
extension. All attempts to delete the file come up with the message "Cannot
delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk."



I even booted with a Win 98 disk and attempted Deltree with no luck.



Any ideas?



Thank You



Pierre de Beer
 
Try this

To correct this misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the
following registry key.

Goto Start>>Run>>Type "regedit" goto
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-
4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32] - Delete this key

This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in
response to file property queries on these files.
 
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