Delete an Undeletable File In Windows
In Windows XP, First, I'll show you the manual way.If you already know the path to the file, please skip to Step 7
1. Click on Start, Search, All Files and Folders
2. Type the name of the undeletable file in the box shown
3. Make sure the Look In box shows the correct drive letter
4. Click Search and let the computer find the file
5. Once the file is located, right-click on it and choose properties,
make a note of the file location.
Usually this is something similar to
c:\windows\system32\undeleteablefilesname.exe
6. Close the search box
7. Click on Start, Run, and type CMD and Press Enter to open a
Command Prompt window
126
8. Leave the Command Prompt window open, but proceed to close
all other open programs
9. Click on Start, Run and type TASKMGR.EXE and press Enter
to start Task Manager
10. Click on the Processes tab, click on the process named
Explorer.exe and click on End Process.
11. Minimize Task Manager but leave it open
12. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the
directory where the file is located. To do this, use the CD
command. You can follow the example below.
Example: to change to the Windows\System32 directory you
would enter the following command and
Press Enter cd \windows\system32
13. Now use the DEL command to delete the offending file. Type
DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete.
Example: del undeletable.exe
14. Use ALT-TAB to go back to Task Manager
15. In Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter
EXPLORER.EXE to restart the Windows shell.
16. Close Task Manager
If you cant do manual way then
go for software called “Unlocker 1.9.2” which is easily available on google.
