Comments | boomerkuwanger: Any advice?

boomerkuwanger

Any advice?

Oct 15, 2003 15:58

Man, something is going down with computer and I need some help. It started with this one .mpg I couldn't delete because Windows was telling me that it was in use in another program (which it never was.) This had happened before but usually I just tried again or waited a little, then I could delete it. But this one never will delete. Not even in ( Read more... )

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misterscarecrow October 15 2003, 15:17:38 UTC

Here's all that I can suggest:

Boot your computer into DOS, preferably off of a boot disk. I don't know what version of Windows you're running, but you should be able to find instructions somewhere on how to make one.

Once you're in DOS, go into the directory where the file is stored. I'm gonna assume that you do know how to do that much. You know:

C:\>cd c:\mydocu~1\mpegs\

or whatever. Then change the file attributes:

C:\My Documents\mpegs\>attrib -s -h -a -r file.mpg

(that's saying "please change the file attributes to NO system, NO hidden, NO archive, and NO read-only)

And then try

C:\My Documents\mpegs\>del file.mpg

That's all I got, folks. I'm worthless re: whether or not this is a spyware function, or a virus, or whatever. Alls I know is boot into DOS and try doing things by hand.

boomerkuwanger October 15 2003, 20:15:47 UTC

Thanks a lot. I'll try thattttttt.

counterfeitfake October 15 2003, 15:28:05 UTC

I have no idea of whether this will help you with this particular problem, but I like to recommend AdAware. It's at www.lavasoft.de, there's a free version, and it cleans your computer up.

Whenever my computer starts acting too weird, I wipe it off and reinstall everything. This is a big hassle, but it's the most effective thing.

boomerkuwanger October 15 2003, 20:16:14 UTC

Thanks.

rhino777 October 15 2003, 19:40:02 UTC

Try doing a full chkdsk /f and then reboot and try it again. This works if your file has received an illegal filename.

boomerkuwanger October 15 2003, 20:15:05 UTC

I'm not sure exactly what that means or how to do it. Man I feel like a retard with all this talk, I'm really not that ignorant, it's just that I never really grew up with any DOS at all... but if you explain just a little more I can get it.

rhino777 October 15 2003, 20:53:05 UTC

If you can get to a dos prompt, just type 'chkdsk /f' and hit enter. Depending on your version of Windows, it may make you reboot before it can perform the check. After it does the full checkdisk procedure, reboot once more for good measure and then you should be able to delete the file. Let me know if you need anymore help...