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Dr_Watson
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 07:25 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i just figured out a nice new trick.
I had a file that was being a bastard and not letting me delete it, "blah blah, file is being used by another application, blah blah"...
even after a reboot... same error.
even in safe mode... same error.

so i decided to try a new approach.
if you want to force-delete any file do this:

1. open a command prompt
2. open task manager
3. kill the explorer.exe on the processes tab
4. delete offending file from the command prompt
5. go back to task manager's applications tab
6. hit new task, and start explorer.exe
7. owned

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raw
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 07:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yeah, I've been using that trick for some years now ;)




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Dr_Watson
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 07:33 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


thanks for sharing then bitch. :p
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Oblivi0.on
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 07:33 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


yep. because the app that is always using fils is explorer itself. quit the cunt.
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 07:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Sweet, would that work for deleting a NetBus server or other trojans?
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Tormentius
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 07:58 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ToxicBug wrote:
Sweet, would that work for deleting a NetBus server or other trojans?


Not if they're currently running. You'd have to kill the process then hope the trojan in question isn't one that reloads itself in two seconds.
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prince1000
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PostPosted: 02-10-2005 10:45 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


what about if you used partitionmagic to merge partitions and can't delete the folder that contains system volume info from old partition?
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FragaGeddon
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PostPosted: 02-11-2005 06:22 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html
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signa
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PostPosted: 02-11-2005 01:34 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


raw wrote:
Yeah, I've been using that trick for some years now ;)


ya that works pretty good. in fact I had just posted that over at raw-one T&T a few days back.
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Foo
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PostPosted: 02-11-2005 01:36 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This is the best method I know of for deleting index.dat, also.

you still have to remember the switches for viewing hidden/system files in cmd, tho :)
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Dr_Watson
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 02:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


wassup foo.

<command> /?

:p
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prince1000
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 02:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


FragaGeddon wrote:
You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html


no i want the folder gone.
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Foo
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PostPosted: 02-12-2005 05:26 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr_Watson wrote:
wassup foo.

<command> /?

:p



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echo lol > rofl.txt
goto :lol



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prince1000
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 12:13 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


prince1000 wrote:
what about if you used partitionmagic to merge partitions and can't delete the folder that contains system volume info from old partition?


anyone have a solution to this? >:E
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FragaGeddon
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 12:15 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


prince1000 wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:
You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html


no i want the folder gone.

It also has delete on boot.



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