Easy WayTo Delete An “Undeletable” or “Locked” File

When I wanted to delete file from my system, but windows simply wouldn’t allow me to do it or error message pops up and tells it cannot be done or “access denied“. These things happen to me all the time. If you have faced with these kinds of problem, then don’t worry! After my hard-working, I found the easiest tricks to solve it and listed below so, have a look and solve your problem.

Explorer.exe is the main causes of it. Explorer.exe process locks files that are in use.

1. Close all programs and go to Start button and Run.

2. Type “TASKMGR.EXE“.

3. Go to processes tab and end process on Explorer.exe. and leave Task Manager open.

4. Go back to the command prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeleted or locked file) located in.

5. At the command prompt type “DEL” where you wish to delete file.

6. Go back to Task Manager, click file, new task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell and close the Task Manager.

7. Or you can try this open Notepad.exe and click file>save as>.

8. Locate the file where your undeletable file or locked file is.

9. Choose all of the files name (the file name should have the extensions of the undeletable file) and click save.

10. It should ask you to overwrite the existing file, select Yes and you can delete as normal. Here is the manual way to do it.

11. Go to start button and click run and type “Command”.

12. To move into directory type CD C:***, where the stars refer your folder.

13. If you cannot access the folder because it has spaces, for example instead of typing in the full folder name only take the first six letters then put a ~ and then 1 without spaces. For example: CD C:Progra~1Nabin~1.

14. Type’ dir‘ and everything will come up with everything inside.

15. Now, delete by typing DEL filename.bmp, jpg,txt etc, make sure it must be in correct extension.