First, as Brian A. said, check the file's Properties. If it is
Read-Only, uncheck that. Can you delete it now? (I guess, also check the
folders in it's Path for Read-Only).

After that may fail... If you have trouble deleting it even in DOS, and
you are willing to sacrifice entire folders...

c:\my documents\Jimmy\Jimmy's New Music

....then, in Windows, try deleting the entire "Jimmy's New Music" folder.
That may well work, BUT you loose everything in it, not just one file.

Don't delete the "My Documents" folder, though.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"eisen" wrote in message
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| I am trying to debug a pc running win98se. I have got the
| ad-aware/spybot,and nod32 anti- virus running and it found lots of
| malware,data mining and spam.
| This pc is used mostly by a 15yr old who uses Instant Messenger and
| Kazzaa and he's put about 40-50 mp3's and short .avi's on it.
|
| The only bad spam I have found is one mildly pornographic jpeg that is
| in the folder with this music folder.
| It does have a long,long, filename with lots of nasty words but it
| begins with "con.HARDCORE~...ETC ETC)
| When I am viewing in Explorer,
| I can not right click it and get the dialog box to come up that would
| allow me to delete this file. It just "blinks" as it is being selected
| but nothing happens.
| It is "grayed" out like it's a hidden file but I can double click on
| it and it will load in a viewer.
| I have read that I might be able to delete it in dos but I don't know
| how to see the dos path. (the Windows naming conventions have spaces
| and apostrophes and my dos skills are primitive).
| I tried to delete it in Safe Mode but did not work.
| The Windows Path is similar to this c:\my documents\Jimmy\Jimmy's New
| Music
| How can I find the dos name for this path/filename?
|
| Can anybody help me. I don't want to buy software if I don't have to.
| thanks