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barcharcraz

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I play oblivion and there is a mod that I downloaded which was a .zip I installed it with no problem but after a couple months aka now I want to get rid of the download file.

so I try to delete it and get a error saying access denied.

OK I think lets see what happens when I open the file in 7zip, what happens it that it just loops back to the directory that the file is in (obviously a corrupted file)

next I get a file shredder, nope no luck.

by the way there are no programs that are using it.

there are also some others like this that have the same problem all oblivion mods all .zips

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He should be able to use Unlocker on the file and with the Assistant delete it upon next reboot if it won't delete as is. Or boot to a CD like UBCD, XPCD, ERD Commander 2005, Reatogo Builder, to delete it.

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Why use third party programs when Windows has the functionality built in?

Fire up Regedit. (Start-menu -> Run -> regedit)

Head over to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

In the right pane, right click and create a new Multi-string value and name it PendingFileRenameOperations

Edit it and type

\??\C:\full path of the file u want to delete\filename.ext

For eg, if I want to delete one tpgtrypr.dll in my system32 folder, I'd type:

\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\tpgtrypr.dll

(followed by an enter)

Save it and reboot your computer. The file will be delted on reboot. You can also delete multiple files this way by typing it on a new line.

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Why use third party programs when Windows has the functionality built in?

Fire up Regedit. (Start-menu -> Run -> regedit)

Head over to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

In the right pane, right click and create a new Multi-string value and name it PendingFileRenameOperations

Edit it and type

\??\C:\full path of the file u want to delete\filename.ext

For eg, if I want to delete one tpgtrypr.dll in my system32 folder, I'd type:

\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\tpgtrypr.dll

(followed by an enter)

Save it and reboot your computer. The file will be delted on reboot. You can also delete multiple files this way by typing it on a new line.

interresting, but unlocker is alot easier lol

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