[TRICK] Delete Undeletable Files On Windows

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July 27, 2021

Study_Purpose
Jul '21
Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.
Close all open programs.

Click Start, Run and enter

TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process on
Explorer.exe.
Leave Task Manager open.

Go back to the Command Prompt

window and change to the directory the AVI (or other
undeletable file) is located in.
At the command prompt type
DEL where is the file you wish to delete.
Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE
to restart the
GUI shell.
Close Task
Manager.

Or you can try this:

Open Notepad.exe
Click File>Save As…>

locate the folder where

your undeletable file is
Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box

click once on the file u wanna delete so

its name appears in the ‘filename’ box
put " 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,

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

Here’s a manual way of doing it.

1. Start
2. Run
3. Type: cmd
4. To move into a directory type: cd c:*** (The stars stand for your folder)
5. If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces for example Program Files or
Kazaa Lite folder you have to do the following. instead of typing in the full folder
name only take the first 6 letters then put a ~ and then 1 without spaces. Example:
cd c:\progra~1\kazaal~1

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 6. Once your in the folder the non-deletable file it in type in dir - a list will come up
with everything inside.
7. Now to delete the file type in del ***.bmp, txt, jpg, avi, etc… And if the file name has
spaces you would use the special 1st 6 letters followed by a ~ and a 1 rule. Example:
if your file name was bad file.bmp you would type once in the specific folder through
command, del badfil~1.bmp and your file should be gone. Make sure to type in the
correct extension.

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