The avi bug which makes it impossible to delete avis in windows xp by chosing delete from the menu or hitting del at your keyboard is caused by Explorer reading the .avi file to determine file information as soon as you move the mouse over the file. This causes ‘permission denied’ errors when trying to simply move, copy or delete these files as they cannot be changed while Explorer has an open handle on them.
Now, the fix is fairly simple. Just fire up regedit and find the following entry and remove it.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32
If you don´t have that entry you have to find the registry key below:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the default value which should be
{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}
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That’s a nice tip and a good thing to learn.
But you can also use the Unlocker (a freeware that I learn about here, thanks again) to do this tip and a lot of another ones:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml
Yes Iam using Unlocker but if you watch lots of Avi movies its simply to much work to always select unlocker to unlock the avi.
With the tip you can delete it immediatly. I´am using unlocker for other files though ;)
can this FIX also help with MP3 files? i had a problem with “getpopupinfo.exe” from dbpoweramp not allowing me to delete a an MP3 file. i used WHOLOCKME to see what was blocking it and it said getpopupinfo.exe. i used 3 programs (incluing MS tasks option) to close the getpopupinfo.exe program but it kept reappearing. supposedly i have to change a DBP option, but was unable to even get there (http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/printthread.php?t=1221). i ended up uninstalling DBP.
thanx for the tip. i just wish i would have read this before purchasing a regcare program that didn’t work.
Or u could just close the directory where the file is, go to dos mode (CMD.exe) and delete file from there….saves u from accidentally messing up your registry
How comes that Microsoft don’t want to fix that problem them self? It should be their responsibility…
Thanks! I tried all kinds of other things that people suggested, and this finally worked.
rename it to a .csv
open with excel
delete everything
save the csv
close excel
delete the csv
easy.