Delete An "Undeleteable" File by Command / Notepad / Manually

Procedure#1

1.  Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.
2.  Close all open programs.
3.  Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
4.  Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe
5.  Leave Task Manager Open.
6.  Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.
7.  At the command prompt type DEL (file name) where (file name) is the file you wish to delete.
8.  Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
9.  Close Task Manager.

Procedure#2

1. Open notepad.exe
2. Click File>Save As..>
3. Locate the folder where your undeletable file is
4. Choose 'All files' from the file type box
5. Click once on the file you want to delete so its name appears in the 'filename; box (the file should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)
6. Click save,

It should ask u to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and u can delete it as normal.

Procedure#3

Manual way of doing it

• Start
• Run
• Type: command
• To move into a directory type: cd c:\***(The starts stand for your folder)
• If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces for example Program Files you to do the following. Instead of typing in the full folder name only take the first 6 letters then put a ~ and then 1 without spaces.Example: cd c:|progra~1\kazaal~1
• Once you're in the folder the non-deletable file it in type in dir-a list will come up with everything inside.
• Now to delete the file type in del ***.bmp,txt,jpg,avi,etc...And if the file name has spaces you would use the special first 6 letters followed by a~and a 1 rule.Example: if your file name is bad file.bmp you type once in the specific folder through command,del badfil~1.bmp and your should be gone. Make sure to type in the correct extension.