Calculating AOB with OLC Gold

[Sea Hawk]

I downloaded "OLC's Video Tutorials"
Then exported then to a file in "my documents" using Winzip
"Video Tutorial Supplement for OLC 'Gold'.avi" played perfectly on windows media player.
"Original OLC GUI Video Tutroial.avi" only played the sound.

I therefore attempted to delete them inorder to redownload them.
Each time I try to delete them I get the message:-

Cannot delete OLC's Video Tutorials.rar: it is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try later.

If when I get this error message I press ctrl-alt-delete then the only programs listed as running is windows explorer. I do not know how to stop the program that is stopping me from deleting these files.

I have since been able to delete "Original OLC GUI Video Tutroial.avi"
but I cannot delete "Video Tutorial Supplement for OLC 'Gold'.avi"

Now when I double click on "Video Tutorial Supplement for OLC 'Gold'.avi" it opens windows media player and playes the video but also brings up a second error message:-
Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close......Send error report.
It then either closes windows explorer, or closes it and my computer showes only my desk top pictire without the program short-cuts and without the start bar at the bottom.

Please help me.
How can I get rid of these downloads.


I also tried removing from my computer my instalation of winzip, and a few other downloaded programs that I do not use, but I could still not delete these video tutorials.

How about you do a reboot of your PC and then delete ?

[Sea Hawk]

Originally Posted by Contact

How about you do a reboot of your PC and then delete ?

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.

[Pisces]

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.

[Sea Hawk]

Thanks Pisces

The computer was turned fully off, no power at all.

I will try your sugestion when I get home tonight.