Posted by Rolo Tomassi on 10/29/42 11:52

Tricky Dicky wrote:
> I have never seen this before
>
> Doing a bit of tidying up today I came to delete an empty directory
> and found that I couldn't - something about it being used by another
> program which it wasn't because nothing else was running. I even
> tried to get rid of it through DOS (!) and although you could see the
> directory this wouldn't work. I even downloaded one of those security
> overwiper programs and that wouldn't get rid of it. It's not a major
> problem but it does bug me
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Tricky

start up in safe mode (F5 during bootup) then delete it then restart.

HTH

Rolo

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