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- crkaintaiwan
Just thought I'd let you guys know. Careful downloading videos. There's a bug in windows xp that won't let you delete an avi file if it's corrupt. Basically it tries to preview it infinitely because it can't display it. So when you try and delete it , you get a message saying the files busy.
So now I got a wasted 750mgbyte file on my harddrive. You can go into regedit and change some coding but thats gettin in over my head. http://www.tweakxp.com/printTwea…
What to do?
- crkaintaiwan0
i built up the courage tried the advice from the link in the last post and it works.
- ********0
I don't download videos and I still run 98. Hooray for me!
- warheros0
that happened to me once, a friend was putting a video in a shared folder on my HD over the network, and he got a crash with ie and it aborted the transfer. i guess it corrupted the avi and i couldnt delete it.
only thing that worked, after a restart and everything else i could think of, was letting him access that folder over the LAN again, and having him trying to delete it. it worked. dont know what the fuck was the deal with it.
scared me half to death!
- jimeeboy510
I think i've found a solution to this problem before too. Copy the file to another location, (for your sake, another hardrive juts to be extra safe) then drag it back to the original location and it should ask if you want to replace the file thats already there. Click yes, then try to delete the file. I've done that twice. Damn pornos.
- mitsurugi0
"dr. delete" is all you need.
- spongebob0
you could use DOS to do it.
type "cmd" or "command" under the Run dialogue, look for the file, then type
"del filename.avi"
- ozhanlion0
dos is not the answer unfortunately.
restart the machine, give it some time to breath, then it will die away.