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Chad Harris
Bernie--
Which alternative to Explorer were you using? Just curious? I haven't seen
anything near a paradigm shift corner turner in Vista's Explorer or its file
organization although they are making it a hype point. I was hoping for
much better. Maybe with the addition of the Sysinterals Winternals team
they can make some things happen for Vienna/Blackcomb or Operating Systems
with names of places where you can drink and ski, maybe multitasking and
doing them both at the same time like Bode MIller does.
1) I'll list some of the usual suspects for deleting them, the first being
the combination of booting to safe mode and deleting them from Windows
explorer in Safe Mode>Reboot
2) Redgedit for Deleting .avis
Unable to Delete AVI Fix.
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the value you find there.
This is due to XP (explorer in particular) trying to create a preview
for it. Now because the file is corrupted or incomplete,
it cannot read it properly, hence, it will not release the file.
This prevents explorer from doing this.
As usual, backup the registry key before deleting it.
Unable to Delete AVI Fix.
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the value you find there.
This is due to XP (explorer in particular) trying to create a preview
for it. Now because the file is corrupted or incomplete,
it cannot read it properly, hence, it will not release the file.
This prevents explorer from doing this.
As usual, backup the registry key before deleting it.
3) Additional Regedit for Deleting .avis
Delete the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32
This prevents explorer from loading shmedia.dll which is used to provide you
with properties of AVI (DivX) files. My understanding is that due to the way
DivX files are encoded, XP has trouble collecting the properties and gives
you the file in use message when you try to delete them.
3) Permission Denied When Deleting .avi files
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8442.html
4) Delete an Undeletable File Utility
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/index.htm
5) How to delete an undeletable file
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_undeletable_file.htm
6) Move On Boot
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html
6) How To Delete Files in XP (Should work Vista)
http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/howto-delete-xp.html
6) MSKB
You cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=320081#XSLTH3195121122120121120120
I've found the MSKB on this not to be very effective.
Good luck,
CH
Which alternative to Explorer were you using? Just curious? I haven't seen
anything near a paradigm shift corner turner in Vista's Explorer or its file
organization although they are making it a hype point. I was hoping for
much better. Maybe with the addition of the Sysinterals Winternals team
they can make some things happen for Vienna/Blackcomb or Operating Systems
with names of places where you can drink and ski, maybe multitasking and
doing them both at the same time like Bode MIller does.
1) I'll list some of the usual suspects for deleting them, the first being
the combination of booting to safe mode and deleting them from Windows
explorer in Safe Mode>Reboot
2) Redgedit for Deleting .avis
Unable to Delete AVI Fix.
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the value you find there.
This is due to XP (explorer in particular) trying to create a preview
for it. Now because the file is corrupted or incomplete,
it cannot read it properly, hence, it will not release the file.
This prevents explorer from doing this.
As usual, backup the registry key before deleting it.
Unable to Delete AVI Fix.
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the value you find there.
This is due to XP (explorer in particular) trying to create a preview
for it. Now because the file is corrupted or incomplete,
it cannot read it properly, hence, it will not release the file.
This prevents explorer from doing this.
As usual, backup the registry key before deleting it.
3) Additional Regedit for Deleting .avis
Delete the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32
This prevents explorer from loading shmedia.dll which is used to provide you
with properties of AVI (DivX) files. My understanding is that due to the way
DivX files are encoded, XP has trouble collecting the properties and gives
you the file in use message when you try to delete them.
3) Permission Denied When Deleting .avi files
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8442.html
4) Delete an Undeletable File Utility
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/index.htm
5) How to delete an undeletable file
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_undeletable_file.htm
6) Move On Boot
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html
6) How To Delete Files in XP (Should work Vista)
http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/howto-delete-xp.html
6) MSKB
You cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=320081#XSLTH3195121122120121120120
I've found the MSKB on this not to be very effective.
Good luck,
CH