why can't I delete this file???!!!!

Windows XP Pro, Athlon 1800XP Chip, 512MB of memory.

Got a nearly 1 GIG AVI file I was previously using in Premiere Pro.

Want to delete it now. Windows won't let me. Message keeps saying the file
is being used by some other program.

I have no programs running at all. Can't delete using any strategy. Yet no
applications are running in the background. I have processes running but no
programs. No processes seem involved with this file.

I've restarted. Logged off and on. Can't use delete key to delete this
file. Nor R-click and delete. Everything else works fine.

What gives?????

It's in use be Explorer itself. (Common for folders that contain music or
picture files.)

Open a command window (Start, Run, type in cmd and hit enter), start Task
Manager (Control+Alt+Delete keys) and highlight 'explorer.exe' on the
Processes tab -- click on the "End Process" button. Back in the command
window, remove the folder using the DEL command... back to the Task Manager
and restart Explorer (File, New Task, type in explorer.exe).

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- relic -
They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.

This did the trick neatly.

Many, many thanks.

SC

"relic" <repl...@newsgroup.com> wrote in message
news:bwFPb.4053$uQ5....@twister.socal.rr.com...

I had the same problem with a 1gig avi file and all it was stoping me was
the common tasks section in Windows Explorer since when you clicked on the
file the side bar was reading the file to generate a thumbnail if you just
wait for a bit you will find you can delete it as soon as the thumbnail
shows.

Any time.