Shenan T. Stanley
December 11th 03, 11:10 PM
Sparty <> wrote:
>> I had downloaded the Half-life2 video from e3, and after
>> the download, it did the process where it took the file
>> from its temp spot and finalized it on my C drive. While
>> it was doing this (huge file, 600meg or so) an error
>> popped up saying IE was not responding. I told it to end
>> process, and it ended my Windows Explorer as well.
>>
>> Well, I restarted my computer and attempted to play the
>> video, and it won't work. I attempted to delete it, and
>> it says another program is using it, although none are
>> running (I've run adaware). Whenever I attempt to do
>> anything with it, my comp slows down considerably. I ctl-
>> alt-dlt and check the process usage, and it says windows
>> explorer is using 99 percent and the actual number of
>> bytes in use constantly rises until my comp just stalls.
>>
>> Long situation, but is there a solution?
I found my old post on this situation. It was a little better than the
original one I gave you:
Couple of things:
First, try this registry hack to help speed things up:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1209/
Second, to erase these files, you may want to try this:
Reboot.
Without accessing any GUI listing of the directories, open a command prompt.
Browse (using CD, DIR and such) to the directory in question in the command
prompt. Once there, get a directory listing and then type:
delete "filename of file you want to get rid of.extension"
and it should erase the file. It seems Windows XP is reading the file
information of the movie/mpg/avi/blah blah files all the time.. If anything
is wrong/weird/etc - it may not let go for you to erase it. Thus, in a
command prompt, this does not happen. The reboot simply clears things up
first.
--
Shenan Stanley
"Just trying to help"
>> I had downloaded the Half-life2 video from e3, and after
>> the download, it did the process where it took the file
>> from its temp spot and finalized it on my C drive. While
>> it was doing this (huge file, 600meg or so) an error
>> popped up saying IE was not responding. I told it to end
>> process, and it ended my Windows Explorer as well.
>>
>> Well, I restarted my computer and attempted to play the
>> video, and it won't work. I attempted to delete it, and
>> it says another program is using it, although none are
>> running (I've run adaware). Whenever I attempt to do
>> anything with it, my comp slows down considerably. I ctl-
>> alt-dlt and check the process usage, and it says windows
>> explorer is using 99 percent and the actual number of
>> bytes in use constantly rises until my comp just stalls.
>>
>> Long situation, but is there a solution?
I found my old post on this situation. It was a little better than the
original one I gave you:
Couple of things:
First, try this registry hack to help speed things up:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1209/
Second, to erase these files, you may want to try this:
Reboot.
Without accessing any GUI listing of the directories, open a command prompt.
Browse (using CD, DIR and such) to the directory in question in the command
prompt. Once there, get a directory listing and then type:
delete "filename of file you want to get rid of.extension"
and it should erase the file. It seems Windows XP is reading the file
information of the movie/mpg/avi/blah blah files all the time.. If anything
is wrong/weird/etc - it may not let go for you to erase it. Thus, in a
command prompt, this does not happen. The reboot simply clears things up
first.
--
Shenan Stanley
"Just trying to help"