Weird Problem with .exe Files.

Post by **bork[e]** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:28 pm

Short and sweet: If I create a new .exe file, windows will tell me it's in use. All I'm doing is right click/new/new txt doc. Renaming it to test.exe and then I try to delete it...nope, denied.

What causes this?

Post by **ilumos** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:13 am

Hm, fuck. I just tried to recreate your problem and it did exactly the same thing. Thanks a bunch

I'll try and work out how to delete the bastad tomorrow. Time for sleep now.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:15 am

I tried and couldn't duplicate it. Did you check for a 'test.exe' in your running processes? If there is, you might be able to end the process and delete it.

Post by **sliver** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:47 am

i don't get that problem. But windows often seems to choose folders and files [especially things i've downloaded

] at random and then refuse to let me delete or rename them. It's a real piss-off.

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:15 am

*Ahem*

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:19 am

sliver wrote:i don't get that problem. But windows often seems to choose folders and files [especially things i've downloaded ] at random and then refuse to let me delete or rename them. It's a real piss-off.

serves ya right :icon6:

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:22 pm

scourge34 wrote:I tried and couldn't duplicate it. Did you check for a 'test.exe' in your running processes? If there is, you might be able to end the process and delete it.

Yup, sure did. Wasn't there, I ended up finding a program like Tomentius mentioned, and after I removed all the files I was having problems with I can remove them without a problem...weird.

ilumos wrote:Hm, fuck. I just tried to recreate your problem and it did exactly the same thing. Thanks a bunch
I'll try and work out how to delete the bastad tomorrow. Time for sleep now.

:icon32: Well, I'm not sure what happened...but I don't have that problem anymore?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:26 pm

i'm still trying to figure out what causes this With windows XP And the Later windows 2000's ( Ie. updates )

ii have a feeling it has somthing to do with file protection of some sort, some times this happeneds to me with torrents that havent Started downloading yet ( They are showing 0bits ) yet windows will NOT allow me to download them.

some times Even Going through Safemode + command prompt wont get em...

Anyway, Glad to hear you are Set Bork[e]

Post by **ilumos** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:42 pm

Ah, finally got rid of the bastad;
Task Manager, end the "explorer.exe" process
Open up command prompt
cd C:\folder_with_retarded_exe\
del retarded.exe

Start explorer.exe again and you're good to go!

Post by **glossy** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:21 am

windows gets a little gay like that. always getting permission denied errors while trying to delete files and folders on my Windows XP server, from my Windows XP workstation.

ghey!