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Tuesday, December 6th 2005
Some time back I created an empty text-file on my desktop, and renamed it .exe – all in the name of science. I simply wanted to see what would happen if I tried running it. Well obviously, nothing but an error message happened when I tried running it. But then I wasn’t able to delete it. For some reason the fake .exe was blocked, or used, by some process.
After doing a fail-safe boot and trying again, as well as booting into Ubuntu and trying to delete it from there, I gave up.
Today I noticed the file lying there and got really annoyed by it again. (More annoyed than usual, that is.) After googling for a while I found this solution:
A piece of cake – if you only know what to do! Actually, it’s a bit embarrasing that I couldn’t figure this one out by myself… 🙂
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for me. I can’t delete the file nssckbi.dll from my old Mozilla tree, not even with this trick. Nobody holds the file, it is simply unremovable 🙂
That’s weird. Have you tried closing all closable processes? 🙂
Sure I did (and http://sysinternals.com/utilities/handle.html would have shown it anyway). Anyway, KillBox (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/killbox.php) was able to remove the file on reboot, problem solved. If something was holding this file, then it was probably the NTFS driver itself…
Helped me to delete an empty cmd.exe file, but these actions made my windows to freeze.