It would have been faster to reformat or so I assume Again anyway I don't want too lay blame anywhere but I am glad but not happy that there seems to be alot of other people having the same problem Hopfully if everyone who has the problem complains the Microsoft Gods will smile upon us with an admission and fix?????
Please if anyone finds a solution that even helps a liitle All I wanted is to add that after being windws7 for a while I have noticed it is very reliant on third party applications to run usefully! The delete is not the only function lacking! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.
Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Mohammed Raieed. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Rudy Stricklan. Here's the process that I used to delete a pesky MB mpeg file: right-click on the file, select Properties, then under the General tab select the Advanced button for Attributes, then uncheck both options under the File Attributes section 'File is ready for archiving' and 'Allow this file to have contents indexed in addition to file properties'.
After applying these changes, the file can be instantly deleted. In reply to Rudy Stricklan's post on January 1, They know if there is any solution to this problem?? In reply to Estarli's post on January 20, Even i have a similar problem when i am creating any file or folder it takes too loong Its really frustrating. In reply to soul reaver's post on March 25, I have used the freeware Fastcopy to achieve this.
You can right-click on the trashcan and turn off the "are you sure" nag. You can also choose to delete without a stop at the trashcan first.
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Active 13 years ago. Viewed 3k times. Ethan Ethan The tools used to do programming are programming related. Maybe rm -rf in cygwin is faster, and maybe a linux live cd rm -rf is faster still. Guys, i'm not sure if this is the same experience everyone else has Not sure why this works, but it does for me.
Active Oldest Votes. JohnLBevan Hugo Hugo I needed to "Run As Administrator" to get this to work, depending on the drive. How about using Cygwin. I know it's a layer on top of Windows but can the linux world help us serving better? Show 14 more comments. Simon Streicher 2, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges.
Stephen Denne Stephen Denne See my answer: stackoverflow. Sinan's suggestion is the fastest. Install cygwin. Show 4 more comments. Stephen Denne Despite all its quirks, Windows does do some things for a good reason. Some files need to be locked down when they are in use, otherwise you risk damaging the file or harming the Operating System. Unfortunately Windows XP seems to be plagued by files that cannot be deleted. You try to delete the file, Windows waits a few seconds before announcing that access is denied, the file is currently in use and cannot be deleted.
It starts with the basics for Windows and moves on to more involved tricks. The process will work for all recent Windows releases, but Windows XP has been causing the most the problems, so we will focus on it. Please note: we are assuming that the file is not crucial to the operation of Windows — deleting important system files can cause havoc.
Software Patch. Is the file in use? It sounds obvious but it happens.
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