How to find and
delete a file in Windows XP or Vista is submitted here to help people
completely uninstall a program. Please ignore it if you have already known
about this.
1. Click Start and then click Search.
2. On “What do you want to search for” column
on left, click on “All files and folders
3. Type the name
of the undeletable file names on the search box, and choose the “Local Hard
Drives” (normally, it’s C: drive)
4. Click “Search“.
5. Once the file
is located, right-click on it and choose properties, make a note of the filelocation. Usually this is something similar to
c:windowssystem32undeleteablefilesname.exe
6. Close the search box
7. Click on Start and then click Run.
8. Type CMD and Press Enter to open a Command
Prompt window.
9. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start Task Manager
and then click on the process named Explorer.exe and click on End Process.
10. 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 as the following example.
Example: to change to the WindowsSystem32
directory you would enter the following command and Press Enter
cd windowssystem32
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. Hold down 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.
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