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force-delete trick.
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:25 am
by Dr_Watson
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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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:31 am
by raw
Yeah, I've been using that trick for some years now 
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:33 am
by Dr_Watson
thanks for sharing then bitch.
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:33 am
by Oblivi0.on
yep. because the app that is always using fils is explorer itself. quit the cunt.
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:49 am
by Guest
Sweet, would that work for deleting a NetBus server or other trojans?
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:58 am
by Tormentius
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:45 am
by prince1000
what about if you used partitionmagic to merge partitions and can't delete the folder that contains system volume info from old partition?
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:22 pm
by FragaGeddon
You could probably use Move on Boot to move the system files over.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:34 pm
by signa
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:36 pm
by Foo
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
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:28 am
by Dr_Watson
wassup foo.
<command> /?
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:28 am
by prince1000
no i want the folder gone.
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:26 pm
by Foo
Dr_Watson wrote:wassup foo.
<command> /?
DocWatSunnnnnn!
:lol
echo lol > rofl.txt
goto :lol
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:13 pm
by prince1000
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?
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:15 pm
by FragaGeddon
prince1000 wrote:
no i want the folder gone.
It also has delete on boot.