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File - Can't delete
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I downloaded what I thought was a song from Limewire the other night. Turns out it's not a song. It reads as windows media file but the player still doesn't read it. So I went to delete it but found when I right-clicked that the option to delete was not there, along with properties etc 
. Just wondering how I go about removing it. I have no other problems with other downloaded files - just this one.
. Just wondering how I go about removing it. I have no other problems with other downloaded files - just this one. 0
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if it says the disk is write protected or something similar, it means the file is being used by something on your system.
anyway to the point, have you tryed to just push the delete button
sorry , safe mode should do the job, otherwise do a virus scan and a quick scan with a spyware finder and you should be right soon enough
Never put my laptop into safe mode, how do I go about it?
Move on Boot
Once installed, right click on the file you want to remove and click "Delete files(s) on the next boot".
I give this a go but didn't work.
When it asked for file to be removed during reboot I selected the offending file and it said it's filename was invalid
Seems a right bastard file you have there.
And like I say, try booting up in safe mode.
i get alot of these files from miss downloaded files on limewire, let me guess, when you try to open it, it opens media player and keeps saying "opening media" or "connecting to media"
Delete is a bit of a bastard, Start up with nothing enabled, (go to start/run/ type "msconfig" without the "", select start up, disabled all, apply, exit and restart, it could work, if not you also have to press ctrl - alt - del and kill all process and applications that are not ment to be there, or inuse by your computer, any taking up large amounts of CPU power shouldn't be there, if its a major windows process it wont let you kill it BUT if you kill the wrong one, it'll stop your pc working untill you restart, but these got rid of the files for me so it should work.
When downloading from limewire and such like, you should start looking at the file you want to download more carefully, like what extension, file size, and if the naming looks tampered with. Alot of the .wmv files are fakes, and try to connect elsewhere.
It can become apparent by looking at a file that infact, it is fake. Also if you want less of these occurances, then move away from limewire etc, there are much better p2p's out there.