Posted by Tricky Dicky on 10/29/98 11:52

"Rolo Tomassi" <abc@defgco.kr> wrote in message
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> 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

That's got the bastard

Many thanks

Tricky

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