weird file

[gatekeeper53]

you could always reformat your hard drive...:mrgreen:

That always works...

We are going to have to start calling you Beer-nut. lol

[AMDave]

I just remembered the other quick solution for this.

create a blank text file (eg"blank.txt") in another folder
now go into the file manager & change the filename to the same name as the file you want to remove (note that this requires "show known suffixes" to be anabled in Windows Explorer otherwsie you end up with a file called eg "badfile.exe.txt" becasue windows keeps the txt sufix on the end)
Then copy the file and paste it into the folder that your bad file is in.
Select yes to overwrite the file.
Now you should be able to delete it because the new version of the file contains nothing and is owned by you.

if that doesn't work go back to my previous post in this thread.

gd luck with that.

[Empty_5oul]

dave i like that solution. good thinking :D

[Frederic Brillouet]

well the problem is that there's no such option for the file like properties... that's what makes it weird. maybe the file name is too big... but i cant change that either

[Frederic Brillouet]

Go to a DOS prompt, navigate to the direcory where the file is.
If the starts with "vero..." type DIR vero*.*
This will list everying begining with vero.
Keep refining this process (DIR veron*.* etc) until only your 1 file is listed
Then type DEL veron*.* (or whatever you typed). This will remove the 1 file you are interested in.

ototero, i love you! i finally got rid of the damn thing!

[AMDave]

Yay!
The CLI still has aces up its sleeve!
I'll have to remember that one.
Well done Ototero ;)

[Ototero]

There's still life in dos, even the dos buries in XP.

Take a bow.

[Frederic Brillouet]

There's still life in dos, even the dos buries in XP.

Take a bow.

:D hail ototero :D

[Steve Lux]

I had to use a similar DOS command line technique about 2 years ago when Norton's wouldn't remove an active virus - except I had to change the file attributes before I could delete the files. It took me two frustrating days to figure out how to get rid of those cursed files.