Help deleting a file "in Use"

Pacifico

I download a game patch. It appears that the download was corrupt or something and now i cant delete it. I have tried in safe mode to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas? I really dont want to format.....

Thanks in Advance

Zombienosh

switch off everything in taskmanager
every running process that u can
then try it?

Pacifico

-AlcoholicA- wrote:

switch off everything in taskmanager
every running process that u can
then try it?

Tried that.

Still nothing

Zombienosh

use any anti virus or adaware stuff on it?

Pacifico

Yep Ad-Aware SE and Pc-Cillin 2002 both fully updated, Service pack 2 also.

Its not affecting the pc at all, just sitting on my desktop annoying me :mad:

Bass.exe

Axel wrote:

I have tried in safe mode to no avail.

Uh, that's quite worrying.... safe-mode is SUPPOSED to stop everything but the essentials running. This implies this file has embedded itself into a vital system process. I have something infesting my Idle process (no, not joking, and can't get rid of it) damn smacktard uses 100% of my Idle CPU, thus my computer is running hot all the time.

Use DOS! Oh wait, you're probably using XP, so you don't HAVE DOS. Oh well...
You could track it down by getting a Task Manager which tells you all the individual threads of your processes, and going through ALL of them one-by-one, closing each down until you can delete the file..... Good Luck with that.

Zombienosh

hmmm
odd

Zombienosh

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

list of processes there

Pacifico

Ah crap, i'll have to format tomorrow......:mad: :mad:

Thanks for your help lads

Pacifico

-AlcoholicA- wrote:

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

list of processes there

Had a look through that, no security threats on my pc apparently.......

Ste-

Kill EVERYTHING via task manager, still leaving task manager open.
Then start new task. Start cmd (DOS) then cd into the directory and delete the file. If it's on it's own do a DEL *.exe or whatever.

This worked for me before with some dodgy .avi files.

moridin

Put in your XP CD.

Boot off it.

Start the Recovery Console.

Delete that bugger of a file.

Mac daddy

If Xp turn of system Restore - Reboot into Safe mode and rename the file then delete it- if i can't delete something or virus scanner picked up dodgy file but can't delete it- system restore disable and safe mode - rename and delete it

Gosh

Axel wrote:

I download a game patch.

What was the name of the download patch amd where did you get it from?

Pacifico

Gosh wrote:

What was the name of the download patch amd where did you get it from?

Its was a beta update for Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and i got it from http://files.worthplaying.com/files/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=758&orderby=dateD

Im gonna try some of the above and see if they work

Pacifico

bedlam wrote:

One thing you could try would be to install eraser and set it up to erase the file after a reboot. I've found that this has worked on a number of occasions on locked files

Tried that and it worked first time

Thanks for the help