UNABLE TO DELETE LOCAL PROFILES

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Fernando Marquez

I´m trying to delete some local unusable profiles
(documents and settings/user_name) but I´m receiving the
message "Unable to delete the file, may be in use". How
can I remove these folders?
Thanks for your answer.
FM
 
It sounds like a process has an open handle to these profiles. I would
start w/ disabling the anti virus...reboot and then attempt to do a delete
of the profiles. If that does not work you could use HANDLE.EXE from
SYSINTERNALS.COM.
It will show you which process has a handle to the profiles.

handle /?

Handle v2.01
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

usage: handle [-a] [-p <processname>] [name]
-a Dump all handle information
-p Dump handles belonging to process (partial name accepted)
name Search for handles to objects with <name> (fragment accepted)

It is a 3rd party tool and is not supported by Microsoft, but may help.

IBTerry [MSFT]
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