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More info?)
How about this
Type cmd in Start Run
Type in the command prompt
del
followed by a space, don't press enter yet.
Drag the file from Explorer to the command prompt window.
Click Start then Shutdown, hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift and click Cancel or Close (depends if a domain or not which it will say).
Press Enter in the command prompt.
Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, then File - New Task (Run)..., and enter explorer and press Enter.
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"Mike Hyndman" <mike@tmphyndman.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:q9tkb1dfo0eggul3atvd23jbi72flq9tev@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:28:01 -0700, "angie"
> <angie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I am pretty dumb when it comes to operating computers so, how do i open a
>>command prompt? Sorry to bother you.
> Angie,
>
> Please ignore the first one of these! I can't tell my right from my
> left! Heavy night last night ;-)
>
> If that's the case you could have problems "navigating" from the command
> prompt to the file to be deleted.
> Do you know how to make a new folder in Windows explorer?
> Can the file be moved?
> If so, right click on the start button and select explore
> in the "tree" on the LEFT hand side, find the folder that ends in (C
> This is your root directory/folder.
> Select this folder and then select File\New\folder. Give this folder a
> simple, short name, trash, for example.
> Then drag your file into this folder.
> Then after starting the command prompt you will see a black box, with
> something like C:\documents and settings\ somename or other> and a
> "blinking" white underscore.
> At this point you would type , without quotes "del C:\trash\*.*"
> followed by hitting the return key.
> The asterisks are"wildcards" that means that anything in that folder
> will be deleted and as there should only be one file in there anyway
> this wont be a problem. They just save you having to type :
> del c:\one\filename.avi or whatever.
> After the file has been deleted follow the instructions on my earlier
> post.
> HTH
> Mike H
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