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Originally Posted by Sea Hawk
Ive tried "switching it off and on again" multiple times, computer off for over 12 hrs in between with no effect on my ability to delete ths file.  |
Was that with the power actually completely down (shutdown windows then unplug the cord, or the switch at the back of the machine's power unit... if there is one), or could it be you have just pressed a "Standby" button (that keeps everything in ram)?
As for Ctrl-Alt-Del/Taskmanager: there is a second tab showing a list of all the processes. (I hope vista looks the same, since I haven't seen/used that ... yet) Since you played a video, it is most likely Windows MediaPlayer kept a hold on that avi file. 'Killing' the Mediaplayer process in the second tab (look for the exe of the mediaplay, something similar to WMplayer.exe) should release the avi file aswel. Becareful!!! not to kill other processes on your system you do not know about. Or your running system might not work correctly anymore. But a full reboot solves that without a problem.