Why can't I delete this file?

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hi.. I downloaded a game via the internet.. It didn't work, so i tried to delete it but my pc said that it wasn't possible because some program may be using this file.. Then I shut down all the programs but it didn't work, it just said the same thing again.. What should I do..?

Hi, the delivfile program did a fine job!
finaly got rid of those files,
thanks a lot guys

HELP!!!!!
Can you delete more than one message received at a time?

I don't know if you'll be able to help me or not. On my Sprint PCS phone, I have Short Mail. I've questioned Sprint's Tech guys and they tell me you have to delete these messages, one at a time. I have 270+ messages! I just won't take no for an answer! When I receive a new message, I get notification which I then click "view" and it shows me a url addy. I click "go" and it takes me to my Inbox for Short Mail. I've tried to go to this url, and all parts of it on my computer, but I keep getting the same message, "Application Error, Please Re-login". I've tried from a Mac & PC. Any suggestions?

Thanks!!!!
blatta

Zando is apparently spyware/adware. I would suggest an up-to-date spyware scan to get rid of it.

OK..., well i have read all of what the other people are saying and it all makes sense...

I downloaded project and a rom for it off of lime wire!

I know that it is wrong and that is why i deleted it.... or at least i thought.

I realised later that some BAD files were left with it!

I have been working on it now for like a month and i stillllll can't delete it! I have tried MS-DOS and nortons wipe data...
How ever i try to delete it (and I have tried many many ways!) i can;t get rid of it. I know that it is spyware and it is called aurora and nail.exe. I have nortons fire wall and it always warns me that these programs are trying to acess the internet and i always click no, but they always come back trying to acess it... i WILL continue to try to delete it, but whenever i do it says that the program is write protected or something and i am getting VERY DISCOURAGED...

I am sooo confused and i could use all of the help that i can get!

I cant seem to delete this file "ZLT03cd4". It was in my TEMP folder in the C:\WINDOWS folder. I deleted the rest of the TEMP files that were around it because my anti-virus software was detecing that they were all viruses. Its weired because I will delete this other folder and it will keep coming back when I run ad-ware se. HELP Please!!!!

The delinvfile thingy worked well for part of what's been undeletable from my recycle folder, yet one file still remains. It was a movie, one I transferred twice. While one of the transferred files would not delete finally did delete with delinvfile, this other one wont.

In normal viewing it seems as if it's a single avi file, yadayada.avi. When I viewed both transferred versions through delinvfile thingy, I saw that each was a folder containing three files, an ico, an avi and another with the avi file for either being only 3 letters long, rather than the multicharacter name the file read through normal means. I could not delete the folders of either so I went inside of each. In one version I deleted eache file individually successfully, and having done that, was able to delete the folder containing them within the recyler bin. In the other folder, still residing in the recycler bin, I was able to delete all but the avi file contained in that folder, and I could not delete the folder either. I have rebooted the computer many times and dealt solely with the recyler bin each time, yet keep getting a message saying the file is being used by another process and refers to the file by the 3 digit avi file name rather than the long name it shows as in the recycler bing.

Using conventional methods, I keep getting a message saying that the file is being used by another process. And while I had this problem yesterday, without using any other software or processes, my CPU is constantly running at 100% and "Explorer", not "IE" is reaching as much as 200MB of use, whereas it's usually anywhere from 20MB to 80MB.

How do I disassociate this file from any other thingy using it, how do I trace what it may be associated with now?

This problem is WASTING MY VALUABLE TIME!!!!!!

HELP!

i cant delete file pkqpxsx.exe and it keeps trying to apply for the internet

I deleted panda antivirus and some of the files are still there and it won't let e delete the files how do i delete them plz help

Leo,

You are the man! Short name delete from a DOS prompt wouldn't work. delinvfile kicked its tail. word to the wise, don't download 10-K web pages from the SEC. The filenames and links that are downloaded contain Greek or something worse that are impossible to get rid of without help from Leo.

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