Adam Albright

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:04 -0700, BobC
<BobC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Thanks. My UAC is already turned off
>
>"Adam Albright" wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:30:00 -0700, BobC
>> <BobC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I have two small Quick time movies that will not delete. When I click on
>> >'Delete' I get a progress box "Calculating time remaining . . ." that just
>> >runs and runs with no progress at all. The data in the box says there are 0
>> >bytes in the file even though they each are more than 32 Mb. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Go to Control Panel and turn off UAC (User Account Control) and then
>> try to delete again. You can then restore UAC if you like.
>>
>> Make sure no other application is using the file when you try to
>> delete it. If you still can't get rid of it, try from the Command
>> Prompt which bypasses all the GUI garbage.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks. My UAC is already turned off.
>
>Not sure of the how-to detail in your second suggestion re the Command Prompt.
>
>Bob

Click on Start, then All Programs, scroll down to the Accessories
folder, click on it, there you'll find the Command Prompt. It opens a
small black window which takes you out of the GUI and back to
something similar to the good old DOS days.

If you type 'help' you'll get a menu of commands you can use and their
proper syntax which can be a little cryptic.

For example to delete a file from the command prompt you can use
either 'del' or 'erase' following by a single space then the file name
like this: del myfile.mov.

You won't get any feedback it was deleted other than seeing it is gone
if you use another command 'dir' which shows the directory. With the
Command Prompt it only says something if it doesn't understand what
you wanted to do and you made a syntax error.

You either need to go to the directory the file you want to delete is
located in using the cd command (for change directory) or just include
the path in the string like this:

C:\>del e:\junk.jpg which would delete the file named junk.jpg on your
E drive. Note the single space after the command del is critical.

If the file you want to delete is in a folder you need to specify the
full path like below which would delete a file named xxx.jpg in the
pictures folder on your E drive.

c:\>del e:\pictures\xxx.jpg

While using the Command Prompt is a little crude, it is more powerful
then trying to do the same things directly from within Windows the
good news is it generally won't fight with you once it understands
what you want to do.