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Deleting A File That "is In Use"

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Personally, I CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open up Task Manager and look through the currently running processes to see what might be using the file that is currently "in use". Although, I'd imagine rebooting or rebooting inside of safe mode mya laos prevail as a method of deleting the file in question to reassure it is not in use. :)

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I confirm. It's quite not normal that a broken file is "used". Probably an antivirus scanning of your hard drive and your USB drive is the first thing to do. Then, copy somewhere the other useful files from you USB drive and then format the USB drive.

And, of course, as usual, booting off a Linux LiveCD would be the easiest way removing the unwanted file from your hard disk.

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On 1/8/2006 at 9:47 PM, Amezis said:

Okay, I managed to format the USB drive following the steps in the first post by tuddy. Thanks! :P Tuddy, on your second post, you asked me to move it to the root of the disk. But moving a file in use is not possible :P Anyway, I managed to delete it, because I downloaded it [url=https://www.meilleurs-credits-info.com/] meilleurs credits travaux [/url] on a p2p-program, called Ares. Ares can delete the files, and it seemed to work when I deleted the file from the program... Strange...And on my other computer, I used Delete Doctor, posted by jlhaslip. Thanks, it worked too :) Now, the file is gone. :P

Very good and much needed article.. Can you elaborate on this topic further

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