Comments on: How to fix the Cannot delete Avi Bug in Windows Xp

By: RyAn

RyAn — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:08:21 +0000

rename it to a .csv

open with excel

delete everything

save the csv

close excel

delete the csv

easy.

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:30:10 +0000

Thanks! I tried all kinds of other things that people suggested, and this finally worked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:36:48 +0000

How comes that Microsoft don’t want to fix that problem them self? It should be their responsibility…

By: Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:19:36 +0000

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

By: john

john — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:32:56 +0000

thanx for the tip. i just wish i would have read this before purchasing a regcare program that didn’t work.

By: paul

paul — Sat, 06 May 2006 21:09:17 +0000

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.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:24:14 +0000

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 ;)

By: Lobo Schmidt

Lobo Schmidt — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:58:08 +0000

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