Windows Vista Business - Cannot delete file

[Tyler]

Hi,

I've just bought the new Vista Business on a Dell PC.
I was downloading a movie trailer and cancelled it accidentally.

Now I have a 44kb *.MOV file sitting on my desktop, that cannot be
deleted/renamed/moved.

It has no Owners. When I try to give ownership to the Administrators group
or my own admin account, it just says "Access Denied". (I only have one
account)

I tried deleting it within IE (The program that created it) by browsing to
the file and deleting it. (Failed)

I tried using "cmd" -> "del" command. (Failed)

I tried SHIFT + DELETE -> the file disappears, but when I refresh, it
appears again.

I tried ending the Explorer process and deleting the file via task
manager(Fail).

Anyone has an idea how I can delete this file....??

[R. C. White, MVP]

Hi, Tyler.

I'm no expert on permissions and such, but...

> I tried using "CMD" -> "del" command. (Failed)

Did you "Run as administrator" when you started cmd.exe?

Yes, I know you are AN administrator, but sometimes Vista has to be
convinced that you are THE administrator. :^{

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
r...@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)

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[Tyler]

Hi!, Thanks for the reply.

I tried the runas /user:machine_name\administrator cmd
and logged on as administrator. But it still doesnt help.

I think something is wrong with that file.

Is there any system tools in Windows I can use to repair that file and then
delete it?

It seems to be corrupted... =x

[fernando liary]

I faced the same problem, I studied it for a long time and how to use
all these commands, and then I simply bought Long Path Tool at the address LongPathTool DOT com and
cleaned all unnecessary files.

>> On Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:45 AM R. C. White, MVP wrote:

>> Hi, Tyler.
>>
>> I'm no expert on permissions and such, but...
>>
>>

>> Did you "Run as administrator" when you started cmd.exe?
>>
>> Yes, I know you are AN administrator, but sometimes Vista has to be
>> convinced that you are THE administrator. :^{
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> r...@grandecom.net
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
>>
>> "Tyler" <Ty...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:27B3BBE7-7E74-4203...@microsoft.com...