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Originally posted by: Shimraa
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Are you trying to delete it from within Windows? There are a million services that can be latching onto it. Try deleting it with the task manager open to the Processes tab. If anything other than SystemIdleProcess has more than 10% that may be the culprit.

If you can't kill the rogue process, try shelling out to a CMD prompt and deleting the file there. Type in delete /? to get the switches available. If there's one available for unconditional, use that.

If that doesn't work, boot the machine in safe mode command prompt and try that. If THAT doesn't work, boot from a DOS disk and delete it from there. If that doesn't work perform an exorcism.

ok tried killing rogue processes, tried safe mode start up, explorer is the culprit cause it using 51 % constantly, and it starts using 100 000 k on FD memory. its not a process its a file.

i as going to try to boot disk strat but ill get a friend of mine to do that, i dont want to delete someting important by accident.

how can you delete using CMD.

Click *Start* then click *Run*-type in *cmd* then hit enter. This will open a command prompt window. You will then need to know which directory (folder) the file resides in. If you have that info, type in cd\ then hit enter, then type in cd\nnnnnnnn where n = folder/directory name. Then type in dir /p to verify the file exists at that location (look for it in the list). If so, type del yyyyyy where y = filename, and if the command prompt lets you, append /u at the end of the command to force it to delete. As always use caution when deleting anything.

I'm a little surprised Explorer.exe is eating up that much in system resources. It is a file, but it's the file that controls the user interface. If you were to end the process, it would probably reset your desktop, but it will most likely happen again if you try to delete the file again. Do you have anti-virus software? I would run a scan with the latest definition files on your entire drive, and also run a spyware sweep using a tool like Ad-aware. Spyware seems like a likely culprit, as a matter of fact. Also, do you have a firewall in place? Are you running Service Pack 2? You can find out if you right click on my computer and select properties. Should tell you which service pack is in place.