My How-To: Delete an "undeletable" file

Here are a couple ways to delete files that otherwise won't delete.

Click Start

Click Run

Open Command Prompt (type cmd)

Open C Directory (Type: cd c:\ YourFolder)

See Note at Bottom

Once your in the folder with the undeletable file it in, type in dir. Now a list with everything in that folder will appear.

To delete, (type: del YourFolder.TheFileExtension)

Done

Note: If you cannot open the folder because it has spaces, then just do the following.

Bobs Shack (Folder Name)

c:\progra~1\bobssha~1

All you are doing is typing out the first 6 letters of the file name.

Note: If you cannot delete because the file has spaces, than use what we used before.

Tasty Crabs (File Name)

del tastyc~1.TheFileExtension

Your file should now be gone. If you are still having trouble with this method, comment on the post and I'll help you one on one with it. Or you could just try the next one.

Close out of all your programs

Open command prompt

Click Start

Click Run (Type: taskmgr.exe)

Go to the Processes tab then end explorer.exe.

Go back to the Command Prompt window and move to the directory of the undeletable file.

Then in the Command (Type: DEL YourFile)

Go back to task manager

Click Run (Type: explorer.exe)

Done