Windows Explorer Again

[Chad Harris]

Bernie--

Which alternative to Explorer were you using? Just curious? I haven't seen
anything near a paradigm shift corner turner in Vista's Explorer or its file
organization although they are making it a hype point. I was hoping for
much better. Maybe with the addition of the Sysinterals Winternals team
they can make some things happen for Vienna/Blackcomb or Operating Systems
with names of places where you can drink and ski, maybe multitasking and
doing them both at the same time like Bode MIller does.

1) I'll list some of the usual suspects for deleting them, the first being
the combination of booting to safe mode and deleting them from Windows
explorer in Safe Mode>Reboot

2) Redgedit for Deleting .avis

Unable to Delete AVI Fix.
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the value you find there.

This is due to XP (explorer in particular) trying to create a preview
for it. Now because the file is corrupted or incomplete,
it cannot read it properly, hence, it will not release the file.
This prevents explorer from doing this.

As usual, backup the registry key before deleting it.

Unable to Delete AVI Fix.
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the value you find there.

This is due to XP (explorer in particular) trying to create a preview
for it. Now because the file is corrupted or incomplete,
it cannot read it properly, hence, it will not release the file.
This prevents explorer from doing this.

As usual, backup the registry key before deleting it.


3) Additional Regedit for Deleting .avis

Delete the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32

This prevents explorer from loading shmedia.dll which is used to provide you
with properties of AVI (DivX) files. My understanding is that due to the way
DivX files are encoded, XP has trouble collecting the properties and gives
you the file in use message when you try to delete them.

3) Permission Denied When Deleting .avi files
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8442.html

4) Delete an Undeletable File Utility
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/index.htm

5) How to delete an undeletable file
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_undeletable_file.htm

6) Move On Boot
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html

6) How To Delete Files in XP (Should work Vista)
http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/howto-delete-xp.html

6) MSKB

You cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=320081#XSLTH3195121122120121120120

I've found the MSKB on this not to be very effective.

Good luck,

CH

 

[Lang Murphy]

Bernie,

Did you try to delete them from within a command window?

Just curious... wonder if that would get a different response time than
using Explorer...

Lang

 

[Bernie]

Until recently I was using an alternative to explorer and was perfectly
happy with file operations but I have not installed that app (xplorer2)
this time around as I wanted to give the Vista explorer a better chance
to show whatever redeeming features it might have. I'm not happy with
the slowness of it but expect these things to get ironed out with later
builds (this is 5384).

But I have two avi files that are not in use and that are both about
680MB in size that I just can't seem to delete from explorer. They are
left over from some editing and I want to delete them. I have tried four
times so far from within explorer and all that happens is the
"calculating" dialog pops up and then hangs till a restart of explorer.

 

[Bernie]

Correction to the "hanging" calculation dialog. If left alone it
eventually worked after about 12 minutes!

 

[Bernie]

The alternative I was using is called xplorer2. It is much like the XP
explorer but has two right hand panes by default.

Thanks for the tips.

 

[Bernie]

Bernie,

Did you try to delete them from within a command window?

Just curious... wonder if that would get a different response time than
using Explorer...

I was eventually successful from within explorer. It hadn't really hung
it just needed about 12 minutes to complete the job.

My post wasn't meant to ask for ways to delete the files but just to
point out that explorer was buggy in this area where alternative
programs are not.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Yah, understood, probably Explorer...

I was eventually successful from within explorer. It hadn't really hung it
just needed about 12 minutes to complete the job.

My post wasn't meant to ask for ways to delete the files but just to point
out that explorer was buggy in this area where alternative programs are
not.