If you know your way around in DOS, deleting the un-
deletable is a simple task that requires only a few
simple steps. What you want to do is:
1. Click on the Start button, then Run, then type the
word command. This will start a DOS Session from within
Windows.
2. Press Ctrl - Alt - Delete, or Ctrl - Shift - Esc, to
get the Windows Task Manager up.
3. Clicking on the tabs on the top of the Task Manager,
navigate to the Processes window and locate the process
named explorer.exe.
4. Sedect the explorer.exe process and then click the End
Process button.
This will cause most all of the Windows Shell to stop.
Don't get excited about the task bar and other components
that disappear when you end the process.
IMPORTANT!!! Leave the Task Manager window running until
you are finished with this process!!!
5. With Task Manager still running, you should still have
use of your mouse. Click on the DOS window, and using the
standard internal DOS commands, navigate to the folder
where the un-deletable file is and delete it from within
the DOS Environment.
What you are doing when you end the explorer process. is
elimating the protection that explorer is giving to it.
As explorer is the "Shell" for the windows interface and
environment, it is easy for TSR applications to lock them
selves into it and not allowing anything to remove them
unless their protection is taken away.
6. Click on the Task Manager session and select New Task.
When the dialog box pops up, enter the process that you
previously ended by typing explorer.exe
This will start an instance of the windows "Shell" again
and every thing will be as it was for the most part. You
will want to restart windows after you do all of this
because some of the programs that run with windows when
it starts up will no longer be running. After the
restart, check to see that the rude little file is infact
gone. If it is not, there is something that is starting
up when windows starts up bringing that file back from
the dead. Dealing with that is a whole other process...
Good luck
Ric...
