Not Allowed To Delete Items
Feb 16, 2005
i moved some picture files onto sister's desktop from my computer so that i could print them out. normally i would just print them but our network has been having problems and i was cut off from the printer but not her computer. i figured i would delete the folder. most of the files deleted but a handful will not allow me to delet them.
is it a virus, a worm, do i have adware or spyware that is not being detected on this machine? (i have run spybot and adaware twice after making sure i had them updated).
also i cannot access certain site using IE but i can access them using aol browser. for example, i cannot access eBay with IE, but i can with AOL but i cannot sign in. could this be a symptom of the problem. i donot have a firewall on this machine.it is a Dell Dimension 8400 with XP home.
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Sep 14, 2005
i have some folders that i want to delete from my computer. when i go to delete them it gives me this error "Cannot delete (folder name): It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again." i dont know what program is using the folder. is there anyway to find out what is using it??
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Jan 19, 2006
how in the name of bejeepers do ya get rid of this ,,,i ran spybot in safe mode ...it comes back ...i tracked it back to a file in system32i cant delete itmy antivirus cant help...any body know how to get rid of this ...very annoying
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Jan 18, 2008
In my WinXPSP2 In msconfig, I have several items ticked and several items unticked. These unticked items don't load at startup, but I'm guessing the system still spends time checking that they DON'T need to be loaded. The system takes long time to start up. (Dont need to check hijack this & viruses, we've been through all of that on here already).
Nomally, in the Windows Current Version registry key there is an entry "Run" for those items ticked to start up and a key "Run -" where the non-starting up items are listed. However I don't have the Run - key, therefore I can't delete these items.
I suspect that previously when there were some items I wished to delete, I might have deleted the whole key rather than the individual items in it.
I thought this key would automatically be regenerated - but obviously not.
Can anyone help me - I'm not sure whether it's Run- or Run - with a space - and should it be in the local machine set, the local user set or both? Do I just type it back in & will these unticked items then appear in it? Or would only newly unticked items appear in it? How else can I delete these items that are unticked in msconfig which I wish to remove?
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Get picture from camera or scanner
Order prints online
tell me the location of the key in the registry, I don't want to install any soft that, will solve this problem and create a new one.
Problem 2: The view preference "thumbnails" in my picture folder is never saved! Each time I open the folder I have to set it on again! The problem is that my pict folder is not in the System disk.
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