Thursday, 6 October 2011

How to: Delete an “Undeletable” File / Folder


when we try to delete some file or any folder in our pc it gives an error "Can not delete it is being used by another person or program" or "access denied". This is a big problem for all of us. some of us think that we can do it with the help of any software but what if we don't have any software. Here is a simple trick with the help of which we can simply do it without any software.first i have some of the images for these king of errors as shown below.



we can follow  these steps to delete these kind of files.
Step 1:- Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.
Step 2- Close all open programs.
Step 3:- Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE or simply press alt+ctrl+del it will            be  opened.
Step 4:- Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
Step 5:- Leave Task Manager open.
Step 6:- Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is
located in.
Step 7:- At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete.
Step 8:- Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
Step 9:- Close Task Manager
and you are done you have deleted the file that was causing error. 
Thank you

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