follow the steps below carefully

Windows 95/98/ME

• If you are using Windows 95, 98, or Windows ME, the easiest way to remove an undeletable file is to boot to a DOS prompt and manually delete the file. Before you do this, you’ll want to make a note of the location of the file including the entire path to it. Follow the steps below to delete these types of files.

• Find a boot disk for your version of Windows. If you don’t have a boot disk then follow the steps below to create one:

for windows 95/98/ME
FORMAT /S A:
COPY C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT A:
COPY C:\CONFIG.SYS A:
COPY C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI A:
COPY C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI A:

On Windows XP, you can generally boot directly from the Windows XP CD-ROM, however in some cases you may still need a set of boot floppies. In this case, click one of the links below to download a program to create boot floppies for Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro editions.

• Windows XP Home Edition Boot Floppy Creator
• Windows XP Pro Edition Boot Floopy Creator

• Shut down and restart your computer with the boot disk in your floppy drive.

• The computer will boot to a DOS prompt that will look similar toc:\

• Type the following command and press Enter to delete the filer, substituting the phrase with the actual path and file name you will delete ex. c:\windows\undeletablefile.exe

• Remove the boot disk in the floppy drive and restart your computer

• The file should now be deleted.

Windows XP

• Locate the file you area about to delete

• Click on Start, Run, and type CMD and Press Enter to open a Command Prompt window

• Leave the Command Prompt window open, but proceed to close all other open programs

• Open the Task Manager window by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or by clicking on Start, Run and type TASKMGR.EXE and press Enter to start Task Manager

• Click on the Processes tab, click on the process named Explorer.exe and click on End Process.

• Minimize Task Manager but leave it open

• Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory where the file is located. To do this, use the CD command. You can follow the example below. Example: to change to the Windows\System32 directory you would enter the following command and Press Enter c:\cd \windows\system32

• Now use the DEL command to delete the offending file. Type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Example: c:\del undeletable.exe

• Go back to Task Manager

• In Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the Windows shell.

• Close Task Manager

Or you can try this:

• Open Notepad

• Click File then Save As…

• Locate the folder where your undeletable file is

• Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box

• Click once on the file you wanna delete so its name appears in the ‘filename’ box

• Put a ” at the start and end of the filename (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)

• Click save

• It should ask you to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and you can delete it as normal

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