File is in use!

[HammerBot]

I have an .avi (movie) file on my harddrive that I cannot delete or rename. Whenever I try, Im told that the file is in use by another person or program. Hereafter the system is slowed down to a mere crawl for up to 30 seconds and explorer.exe uses 100% CPU power. Even straight after reboot the system 'thinks' the file is in use although it is not.

This happened after the player crashed since the .avi file is corrupt, so somehow the file is still marked as being in use. How can I fix this?

Im using WXP with all the latest updates and patches etc.

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[smitbret]

Try restarting in safe mode.
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[sherif444]

hey try deleting it from CMD or make a batch file to delete it you can also try creating a new text file in the same folder then select both file and delet them..(select the text file first)

 

[Toejam31]

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[blah]

stupid XP will not let you do little more than just delete the .avi, there are some other things that drove me nuts at the times i have "tried" XP (wora junk). heck, try to get properties for such file, it will take forever, and PC becomes dead for a while. win2k does not have such issues ever, coughe.

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[blah]

that was a lot of doing there, anyway, simpler way to delete that file and trick the stupid XP is to delete the folder it sits in (move yer other files before that to diff folder tho

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[ZeuSueZ]

Hi,

There is a slight chance that your thumb file is corrupted - try deleting this, and then afterwards (you might wanna reboot) delete the .avi file, this should do the trick

//Z

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[jubei_woop]

ive had this problem before. the only way i could get rid of it was to use a virus checker (i used norton antivirus), quarantine the problem file and delete it through the quarantine window. hope this helps