From: Tim Meddick on
In addition to other very good advice given here on this topic, I would just like to
note that as a first step to releasing "locked" files for deletion, quite often just
rebooting (or even logging off /back on again) will do the trick...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Bobby Jones" <BobbyJones(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> From time to time I download a short MP4 clip, then, after viewing, I delete
> it. I have one I've been trying to delete, but receive message that 'access
> is denied' and to make sure 'disk is not full or write protected.' Not sure
> what disk the system is referring to, but my hard drive is not full, there's
> nothing in my recycle bin and this MP4 file is only 49,323KB. I just want to
> delete it. Thanks.