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Help! Can't delete a file in Windows XP!
This should be so simple on the face of it, but aaaaargh!
In a nutshell, I have a virus that has corrupted the USERINIT registry entry. Identified it ok. Just need to delete c:\program\abc\def.exe (I got the name from regedit.) 1. I can't delete folder "abc" because it says it's "not empty". Fair enough, I'll delete "def" first. 2. Uh huh. Says "def" isn't there. 3. I go into DOS (or rather the command prompt feature of WXP). 4. I do the ATTRIB command for -r -s -h, and it takes it without error message..... BUT nothing's changed, at all! 5. Read on the internet that the TYPE command ignores whether files are hidden/system, so I do that on def.exe. 6. YES! It lists gobbledegook (as expected with .exe data) so that proves it DOES exist and is still there. So - the question seems to be why the ATTRIB command had no effect..... anybody have any suggestions? Thanks Guy |
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