File is Being Accesed, but not by me

[mrshizzle2002]

Newbie:
I recently downloaded a movie from a P2P and it went to go burn it so i could delete it of the laptop. When a message pop-upped saying this file was being used/accessed by another program. I checked my firewall and that was good 2 go. And i still can't figure out the problem

What do i need to fix the problem or has hacker gotten a hold of my computer?

[Digital Bliss]

Try restarting the computer and or turning off the file sharing program usually when this happens the file is in use by windows.

[shawners]

most likely you can be sharing it still or movie player has it playing or in its cache possibly.. or just needs to remove from the burning software that may be accessing it.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Word.


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[Lehk]

use process explorer, it's free and it will let you search all processes for the file handle (that is how windows keeps track of which programs are using which files)

you can even kill the file handle from within process explorer

[zaphodiv]

The problem is most likly that windows explorer was trying to generate a thumbnail image of the movie. It can keep the file open for many minutes trying to do that.

[Krell]

Just requires that you know how to change dir in DOS. My suggestion is to use Explorer, go to the files you can't delete, then WRITE DOWN that path followed by the exact file name !!! If you have a printer, copy this txt to notepad then print it out.

C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Temp\1ac7211e.msi <--- see what I mean?


Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.

Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.

At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.

Close Task Manager.





The following DOS commands will allow you to change directories quickly.

• To change to the root directory, at the DOS prompt, type: CD \
  Press ENTER
• To change to a directory one level up from the current directory, at the DOS prompt, type: CD ..
  Press ENTER
• To change to a sub-directory, at the DOS prompt, type: CD sub-directory name
  Press ENTER

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Here is an example of how to GET to where you need, if you know the path.


C:\Documents and Settings\USER>E:

E:\>cd MCSE Study Guides

E:\MCSE Study Guides>dir
Volume in drive E is 250gb Storage 1
Volume Serial Number is 8826-A79A
Directory of E:\MCSE Study Guides
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> .
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> ..
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> ActualTests
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> BrainDump
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> Certification Exams INFO pages
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> Exam Cram 2
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> ExamInsight
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> John Wiley & Sons
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> KnowledgeNet
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> MS Press
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> Snygress
06/30/2005 10:08 PM <DIR> Sybex
06/30/2005 10:07 PM <DIR> TestKing
06/30/2005 10:07 PM <DIR> TroyTech
0 File(s) 0 bytes
14 Dir(s) 103,095,615,488 bytes free

E:\MCSE Study Guides>