the invisible program?

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the invisible program?

Postby Zep on Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:42 pm

i downloaded some beatles music videos off kazaa, and now that i want to delete them, windows says that i can't 'cause another program is using them when i don't even have anything else running.

ehhhhh?
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Postby RabidYak on Sun Aug 17, 2003 5:46 pm

I've had this a few times and its always video files, Restart your machine in safe mode and kill it from there.
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Postby ivwshane on Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:05 pm

Don't let windows show a preview of the file in the left pain.

My experience has been that when I click on a file (multimedia) to delete it I can't because windows has generated a little preview of it on the side and because that preview program is using my file I get the "file in use" error. So I either change folder views so that no information is shown on the side or I resize the window so that the preview can't be seen and then I delete the file.
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Postby Silverhaze on Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:58 pm

In my experience with kazaa, files like that can contain viruses.

Do like Yak says and delete them in safe mode by pressing F8 after the mem check on start up.

Then run a full system scan with your virus checker.
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Postby Zep on Mon Aug 18, 2003 10:21 am

thanks again guys!
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Postby were on Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:18 pm

beware of downloading files from there..i found a couple of them(mostly modifying the winodows directory)
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